IB launches IBmarkets.com
GREENWICH, Conn., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Interactive Brokers Group, an
electronic broker-dealer that trades equities, options and futures on
50 markets around the world, is launching ibmarkets.com to help answer
questions about trading and market structure.
The website takes a look at news-driven market developments, such as the
put/call ratio on the options market on the eve of the presidential elections;
daily market commentary from our trading desks in North America, Europe and
Asia-Pacific; background and opinions about issues that shape markets, such as
the rise of algorithmic trading; and regulatory filings on major industry
topics.
Ibmarkets.com also discusses market trends and issues, such as the need
for standardized error policies across exchanges in a piece written by traders
Jeff Shaw and Sean Flynn; or how BOX, the newest U.S. electronic exchange,
performs versus its established competitors.
The website also carries regulators' and academics' views about the
marketplace.
IBG, drawing on its experience trading multiple asset classes on about 50
venues around the world, is making its resources available to help answer
reporters' questions and foster a better understanding of the global digital
marketplace. Ibmarkets welcomes e-mail questions from reporters as well.
IBG is the 20th largest U.S. broker-dealer ranked by capitalization. Its
subsidiaries, direct-access brokerage firm Interactive Brokers (IB) and
specialist Timber Hill, account for 12 percent of the world's global options
volume and regularly rank among the main program-trading firms on the New York
Stock Exchange.
IB provides hedge funds, investment advisors and professional traders with
real-time access to markets, dynamic smart-routing technology with unique
features such as spread trading, and a single consolidated Universal account
that can be maintained in different currencies. |
