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Transaction Cost Analysis Report
The new Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) report helps you track execution performance and optimize execution strategies. The report aggregates trades weighted by volume and shows overall performance. It also includes various tables that break down performance by criteria including trade date, trade price, underlying, exchange and more.
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Probability Lab
Probability Lab℠ Hits
Android App Store
The Probability Lab is now available as a stand-alone application for Android devices. Introduced last December in TWS, the Probability Lab offers a practical way to think about options without the complicated mathematics. You can use the Probability Lab to analyze the market's probability distribution (which shows what the market believes are the chances that certain outcomes will occur) and make adjustments based on your own forecast.
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China Now Open for Trading
Experience the potential benefits of participating in the growth of one of today's largest emerging markets. As an exchange participant in the groundbreaking Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program, IB's Hong Kong and international clients can now trade designated Chinese securities on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Trades settle in Renminbi.
Available Stocks
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Other recently added new commission and products updates include:

Commission Decreases:
  • The US tiered stock minimum has decreased from $0.70 to $0.35 for all monthly volumes.
Futures:
  • IEO Million Euro in US Dollar on ICEUS
  • JPNK400 JPX-Nikkei Index 400 Futures on TSEJ
  • Mid-term Euro OAT futures OAM on Eurex Deutschland
Currency Futures:
  • US Dollar in Japanese YEN futures (UJ) on SGX
  • Onshore Chinese Renminbi (CNY) in US Dollar Futures (CY) on SGX
CFDs:
  • Norwegian CFDs
 
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IB FYI: Capture Dividends with
Automatic Early Exercise
IB FYIs help you stay on top of relevant dates and events through notifications and actions. A new optional action, Automatically exercise my options early, has been added to the IB FYI Dividends notification. When this action is enabled, IB's system will determine whether it is likely to be beneficial to you to exercise call options early, using predefined mathematical criteria and based on well-established theories of option pricing and efficient markets. The system will then send you a notification two days before the stock trades ex-dividend and, if the determination remains favorable, automatically exercise the option early with no action required from you. This feature is supported for US stock and ETF options.

You can enable and disable IB FYIs and trading-related automatic actions from the Manage Account > Trade Configuration > IB FYI page in Account Management.
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Forex
IB's Share of Retail Forex Market Up a Full Percentage Point to 7%
Forex news and research source, Forex Magnates, delved through data reported to the CFTC by reporting Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) for the month of August, and highlighted those firms that saw changes in retail forex funds versus the prior month and changes in U.S. market share. In an article on forexmagnates.com, editor Victor Golovtchenko notes that Interactive Brokers is one of ten reporting FCMs to see its market share increase by a full percentage point to 7% of the U.S. market. In Q3 2014, IB clients recognized the highest percentage of profitable trades* according to Forex Magnates.
IB Forex Ranking*
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Generate Activity Statements in Excel Format
You can now elect to generate activity statements in Microsoft Excel format. When you run your statements from the Reports > Activity > Statements page in Account Management, you can select MS Excel as the format. Once the statement has been generated, you can elect to either view or save the statement.
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mobileTWS for Android Phone
mobileTWS for Android phone users will see new order entry screens for more efficient order and price entry, improved trade and order lists with more columns and by-column sorting, and an overall improved look and feel with cleaner navigation that makes mobileTWS easier to use.
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HFM Award
IB Wins at US Hedge Fund Services Awards
Interactive Brokers was awarded "Best prime broker - technology" at the HFM US Hedge Fund Services Awards 2014. Shortlists and winners were judged by a panel of industry experts. Judges were asked to focus on financial/client growth, innovation and customer feedback when deciding.
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TWS
Trader Workstation Key Enhancements
Portfolio Performance Profile Tool
This new Mosaic feature allows you to toggle the Mosaic Portfolio window into "what-if" mode and add or remove hypothetical positions to and from your existing portfolio to see how these changes will affect key portfolio metrics including P&L, Delta and the Greeks and Value at Risk. If you like the performance results from hypothetically modifying positions, you can easily create and submit real orders to reflect these changes in your actual portfolio.
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Predefined Watchlists
Available from the Mosaic Monitor panel, our Predefined Watchlists allow you to instantly create a new Watchlist page that is pre-populated using contracts from a user-selected scanner. Scanners currently include: US Indices and ETFs, US Treasuries, Europe Indices, Asia Index Futures and World Indices/Index Futures.
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More Studies Added to Charts
Over the past year we've added more than 55 new chart indicators to our interactive charts, and we're not done yet. Along with our new SimplerOptions subscription-based indicators, recent additions include such popular favorites as the Ichimoku Cloud, VWAP with Standard Deviation Bands, Regression Studies such as the Least Squares Moving Average and the Linear Regression Slope and more. Keep watching for more studies to be added over the next several releases.
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Video Webinars & Courses
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2015 Trading Calendar
2015 International Traders'
Holiday and Expiration Date Calendar
Our annual calendar displays exchange holidays and contract expiration dates for the major exchanges and products around the world. View the HTML Calendar App on your mobile, tablet, desktop or laptop device.
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