Traders University

The Mechanics of a Short Sale is a tutorial that is designed to show you the inner workings of how a Short Sale works.

Running Time: 2 mins

Introduction to Technical Analysis

The Technical Analysis Tour explains the important role of the chart analyst and how technical and fundamental analyses differ. In this introductory tour, you will learn how to identify areas of support and resistance on a chart, the role of different time frames, and how to interpret basic trend formation.

Running Time: 24 mins

Mechanics of a Foreign Stock Transaction

The Mechanics of an Overseas Stock Transaction Tour describes the choices facing investors wishing to invest in stocks denominated in currencies other than their base domestic currency. This tour attempts to explain these alternative approaches and also shows the impact of exchange rate risk on transactions that can be made overseas.

Running Time: 17 mins

Contracts For Difference (CFDs)

Investors using Contracts for Difference or CFDs are making almost identical decisions to those using ordinary shares in a company. CFDs are meant to mirror the performance of the underlying share price whether it goes up or down. There are, however, some key differences that we reveal in this Contracts for Difference tour. Compare the impact of tax treatment, leverage and commissions charged between regular securities trading and the treatment of CFDs.

Running Time: 12 mins

Options 101: Pricing

The Options Pricing 101 course is designed to familiarize traders with the variables in options pricing models.

Running Time: 9 mins

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Options 102: The Greeks

The Options Greeks 102 course is designed to familiarize traders with a set of Greek risk factors used to monitor a portfolio's profile.

Running Time: 6 mins

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Options 103: Strategies

The Options Strategies 103 course is designed to show how options work as a tool for hedging positions and how they can be used for speculative purposes.

Running Time: 13 mins

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Forex Markets 101

The Forex Markets 101 Tour is designed to help investors recognize the nature and needs of participants in the currency market along with how various foreign currency instruments have been developed to create the largest traded market around the globe.

Running Time: 14 mins

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Tours

TWS Basics

A high-level overview of the Trader Workstation (TWS) feature set, focusing primarily on the Mosaic workspace.

Running Time: 13 mins

Understanding Margin

Introduces you to the basics of IB margin accounts. Learn when and how IB calculates margin and how to use the Real-Time Monitoring features in Trader Workstation to manage your trading risk.

Running Time: 24 mins

Best Execution

What happens to your stock and option orders after you enter a trade in Trader Workstation? In this tour, we illustrate the mechanics of the Interactive Brokers SmartRouter^SM and demonstrate its capabilities. We explain that The Transaction Auditing Group (TAG) has performed an independent analysis and determined that the execution quality of IB's customer orders is significantly better than the industry as a whole*. Better execution prices translate into additional cost savings to IB's customers. You'll also gain insight to the logic of stock and option combination order-routing.

Running Time: 14 mins

IB Tax Optimizer

Tax Optimizer allows customers to match specific lots on a daily basis, but it doesn't stop there. It also provides seven lot matching methodologies and lets customers run real-time "what if" scenarios to see the impact of each method on capital gains and losses.

Running Time: 23 mins

IB TWS for iPhone

Provides an overview of the main features of IB TWS for iPhone.

Running Time: 12 mins

IB TWS for iPad

Provides an overview of the main features of IB TWS for iPad.

Running Time: 11 mins