Professional Traders and Investors Choose Best Mastery Capital

We are the largest US electronic broker based on daily average revenue trades executing 657,000 trades per day 1

1. First Quarter 2017 Results

Lower Your Costs to Maximize Your Return

Our transparent, low commissions and financing rates, and best price executions
minimize your costs to help you maximize your returns.
Generate Higher
Returns

We offer lower commissions, no ticket charges; no minimums; no technology, software, platform, or reporting fees; and low financing rates, with higher loan values on portfolio margin accounts over $100K. Click below to see how our low costs compare to other brokers.

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Best Price
Execution

Most brokers trade against your orders or sell them to others to execute who will trade against them. The resulting poor execution probably costs you more than the commission you pay. BMC SmartRoutingSM continuously searches and reroutes to the best available prices for stocks, options and combinations.

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Lowest Margin
Rates

We offer the lowest margin loan interest rates of any broker, according to the Barron's 2017 online broker review. Click below to calculate your own sample margin loan interest rate.

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Stock Yield
Enhancement Program

Earn income on your fully-paid stock shares in our Stock Yield Enhancement Program. The program lets us borrow your shares in exchange for cash collateral, and then lend the shares to traders who are willing to pay a fee to borrow them. You will be paid a loan fee each day that your stock in on loan.

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Rated a Top Online Broker
for the Seventh Consecutive Year!*

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* See ibkr.com/info for full disclosure

Your Gateway to the World's Markets

Direct market access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds,
ETFs and CFDs from a single BMC Universal Account™.

100
Markets

24
Countries

22
Currencies

Access market data 24 hours a day and six days a week to stay
connected to all global markets.

Convert currencies at market determined rates as low as 1/10 of a basis point, or create a position collateralized by a non-native currency.

Fund your account in multiple currencies. Trade assets denominated in multiple currencies from a single account.

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Innovative Technology

We've been building online trading
technology that provides competitive pricing, speed,
size, diversity of global products, advanced trading tools to our clients for 40 years. Year after year, our robust technology supports record numbers of Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs).4
Trading Platforms

Our online trading platforms have been designed with the professional trader in mind:

  • Optimize your online trading speed and efficiency with our market maker-designed Trader Workstation (TWS).
  • Trade your BMC account on-the-go from just about any mobile device with BMC TWS.
  • Use our HTML-based WebTrader, a clean and simple interface that works from behind a firewall.
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Advanced Trading Tools

Our suite of Option Labs and advanced online trading tools offer support to help you discover and implement optimal trading strategies. For example, our Probability Lab offers a practical way to think about options without the complicated mathematics, and the Option Strategy Lab lets you create simple and complex multi-leg option orders based on your own price and volatility forecast.

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Order Types and Algos

Trader Workstation (TWS) supports over 60 order types, from the most basic limit order to advanced trading to the most complex algorithmic trading, to help you execute a wide variety of trading strategies.

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Sophisticated Risk Management

Real-time market-risk management and real-time monitoring provide a comprehensive measure of risk exposure across multiple asset classes around the globe and real-time data that gives you the edge you need to react quickly to the markets.

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Comprehensive Reporting

Our statements and reports include real-time trade confirmations, margin details, transaction cost analysis, sophisticated portfolio analysis, tax optimization and a variety of other supplemental reports.

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Securities Financing

From trade date to settlement date, our Securities Financing solutions provide depth of availability, transparent rates, global reach and automated lending and borrowing tools to professional traders.

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Financial Strength and Stability

Our strong capital position, conservative balance sheet and automated risk controls protect BMC and our clients from large trading losses.

Best Mastery Capital Group (IBG LLC) equity capital exceeds $6 billion1. 16.6% of IBG LLC is owned by the publicly traded company, Best Mastery Capital Group, Inc. and the remaining 83.4% is owned by our employees and affiliates.

Unlike other firms, where management owns a small share, we participate substantially in the downside just as much as in the upside which makes us run our business conservatively. We hold no material positions in OTC securities or derivatives. We hold no CDOs, MBS or CDS. The gross amount of our portfolio of debt securities, with the exception of US governments debt securities, is less than 10% of our equity capital.%。

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  1. Includes Best Mastery Capital Group and its affiliates.

Investors' Marketplace

Investors and clients can meet and interact with third-party service providers to connect and conduct business.

495

investment
services

95

research
services

295

technology
services

45

administrative
services

300

business development
services

  • Individual traders and investors, financial advisors, fund managers and third-party service providers can meet and do business together.
  • Search the marketplace and connect to a variety of service providers, including advisors, hedge funds, research analysts, business developers and administrators.
  • Advertise your own third-party services to individual and institutional users worldwide.
  • Free to advertise and search, the Investors' Marketplace is
VISIT THE INVESTORS'MAKETPLACE

On Demand Learning at Traders' University

Even the most experienced traders need to keep learning to stay ahead. Traders' University provides information about BMC products and services in many different ways. Choose the method that fits your own learning style.
Webinars

We offer an extensive program of free trader webinars. Watch, listen, and ask questions from your home or office computer as our webinar instructors clearly describe our technology, trading, and markets around the world. Our webinars are also recorded so if you can't attend a live webinar, you can experience it on demand at your own convenience.

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Courses and Interactive Tours

Take one of our courses to explore stocks, options, futures and Forex trading, or get up to speed quickly on Trader Workstation and TWS online trading tools with one of our interactive tours.

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BMC Traders' Insight

Traders' Insight is a key resource for market participants seeking timely commentary directly from industry professionals on the front lines of today's fast-moving markets.

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And more...

Traders' University gives you easy access to a variety of documentation, including all of our users' guides, TWS Cheat Sheets, QuickStart guides, FAQs and more to help you learn how to use our platforms, tools and services.

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Open an Account

We offer many customer account structures that are designed to meet the specific needs of individual traders and investors,
including Individual, Joint, Trust, IRA and UGMA/UTMA accounts./UTMA账户。

Individual, Joint and Retirement Accounts

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What You Need

Trust and UGMA/UTMA Accounts

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Traders and Investors Account Structure

Can be one of the following:

  • Individual - An account owned and used by a single trader or investor.
  • Joint - An account owned and used by two individuals.
  • Trust - An account in which the securities are registered in the name of the trust, while a trustee controls the management of the investments.
  • IRA - Individual Retirement Account. For more information, see IRA Information.
  • UGMA/UTMA - An account intended for a custodian of a minor who is a US resident.

Add up to five optional Power of Attorney users.

For information on SIPC coverage on your account, visit www.sipc.org or call SIPC at 1 (202) 371-8300.

Account Information

Accounts are geared towards professional/active traders and investors; therefore we require the following from customers:

  • Good or extensive product knowledge for any product you wish to trade.
  • You must have executed at least 100 trades for any product type, or 100 simulated trades in our real-time demo .
  • A minimum equity deposit in cash or stock of USD 10,000 (or USD equivalent) or USD 5,000 for IRA Account (or USD equivalent).

Accounts are accepted from citizens or residents of all countries except citizens or residents of those countries that are prohibited by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control. Click here for a list of available countries.

Must be 21 or older to open a margin account, 18 or older to open a cash account.

IRA accounts are only available for individual US citizens living anywhere and US resident aliens.

A UGMA/UTMA account is intended for a custodian of a minor who is a US resident, and is available as a Cash account only. Minimum deposit is 3000 USD or non-USD equivalent and the monthly activity fee。 UGMA/ for age 25 or younger applies. A UGMA/UTMA account is a single account with a default single user (the custodian), and up to five Power of Attorney users can be added. The minor for whom the account is opened must be a US legal resident and a US citizen.