Direct input of global transactions
The company is referred to as IB for short in the industry, and carries out brokerage, banker and self-operated trading business in more than 70 market centers around the world. In brokerage business, IB provides direct entry (online) trading, order execution and settlement services for institutions and professional traders of various electronic trading products. These electronic trading products include global options, futures, stocks, foreign exchange and bonds (information, quotes) business. In the proprietary trading business, IB engaged in about 6,500 betting activities for electronic transactions of different products in its own account. At present, the stock option trading volume of IB Group accounts for 18.7%* of the total stock option trading volume of various exchanges in the world, accounting for more than 20% of the stock option trading volume of the United States. The group executes about 650,000 transactions every day.
The financial data of IB are as follows:
The market value is 6543.8 USD+0.2 billion.
Shareholders' funds exceed $3 billion.
Customer assets exceed $7 billion.
The net income in 2006 was $65.438+$25 million, and the after-tax profit was $730 million. There are more than 500 employees in the world, and the average profit per employee exceeds $6,543,800+,which is a rare per capita income-generating rate in the American industry.
Company stock trend: slightly rising.
Interactive Broker is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut (Greenwich, Connecticut, USA). Global branches include Chicago, Switzerland, Canada, Hong Kong, London and Sydney. IB is supervised by the regulators in the world, such as SEC (American Securities and Exchange Commission), NASD (National Association of Securities Brokers), NYSE (new york Stock Exchange) and FSA (British Financial Services Authority).
1983, Timber Hill Branch of IB Group manufactured the first PDA for trading. The ability to track positions and continuously price stock options gave the company an unparalleled advantage, because compared with other competitors of the exchange at that time, their price forms were only updated once or twice a day.
Advantages of IB:
Capital security-securities account insurance of up to $30 million. The first level of insurance is SIPC, which costs 500,000 dollars.
Ultra-low handling fee-the first in Asia, for example,
CBOT electronic soybean is $0.28-$65,438+$0.25 per lot (plus transaction fee of $65,438+$0.8).
Hong Kong stock transaction costs:
0.088% of the amount of each transaction (including various miscellaneous fees, the minimum charge is HK$ 18 per transaction). 0. 1% stamp duty and 0.004% transaction levy of CSRC shall be paid directly by customers themselves.
Ultra-low commission for Hang Seng Index futures: HK$ 3-HK$ 20 unilaterally (plus exchange handling fee1HK$).
Fast runway-lightning trading, 650 thousand transactions every day.
Global trading-17 countries, more than 70 stock and futures exchanges.
Advantages of foreign exchange trading-ECN electronic communication platform, ultra-low spread, no gambling.
Advantages of securities trading-according to the most advanced Algo algorithm trading platform in the United States, find the best trading path.
The advantage of option trading-fully electronic processing, fast speed, the trading volume of stock options accounts for 19% of the world.
Automatic risk control-when the account maintenance margin is insufficient, the system will automatically close some positions until the funds are sufficient.
The account opening procedure is completely networked-the customer completes the account opening procedure himself. Save manpower and money for customers.