MFGlobal & Interactive Brokers

Man Financial* is now MF Global. We provide execution and clearing services for exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivative products as well as for non-derivative foreign exchange products and securities in the cash market. Our worldwide offices serve a client base of more than 130,000 active accounts, ranging from financial institutions, industrial groups, hedge funds and other asset managers to professional traders and private/retail clients.

We serve as a value-added intermediary across a broad range of trading markets, including interest rates, equities, currencies, energy, metals, and agricultural and other commodities. We are the leader by volume on many of these markets and on a single day average six million lots, more than most of the world’s largest derivatives exchanges.

Why Interactive Brokers?

Successful traders and investors understand that superior technology and lower trading costs may result in greater returns. For 30 years we have been building direct access trading technology that delivers real advantages to professionals worldwide. With consolidated equity capital that exceeds US $3 billion, IB and its affiliates exceed 700,000 trades per day, and handle 14% of the world's equity options volume. Discover some of the reasons why IB is the professional traders' and investors' choice.

Premier Trading Technology

• Direct access to options, futures, forex, stocks, and bonds on over 70 market centers worldwide from a single IB Universal Account^SM.
• Market maker designed Trader Workstation (TWS) optimizes your trading speed with a single multi-product spreadsheet interface offering real-time streaming quotes and quick click order entry.
• Customized order entry modules designed to meet specific trading needs such as options, forex, spread and basket trading.
• Real-time risk management, including our portfolio margin system, which allows increased leverage with greater safety.
• Over 40 order types and trading algorithms.
• IB Risk Navigator and Factory, which provides advanced risk management tools for your portfolio with a special emphasis on options and futures.
• Customized statements and flexible integration with third-party Portfolio Management Systems (PMS).
• Simulated trading facility to test trading strategies.
• Seamless integration with user developed trading applications.

Lower Trading Costs

• IB SmartRouting^SM is designed to search for the best price available at the time of your order, and unlike other routers, dynamically route and re-route all or parts of your order to achieve optimal execution. According to The Transaction Auditing Group (TAG), a third-party provider of audit services, Interactive Brokers' customer equity options orders were improved 14.85% of the time vs. an industry improvement rate of 0.57%*.
• IB has automated every aspect of the trade process in-house, enabling us to offer lower commissions, lower margin rates, and higher interest paid.
• IB independently routes US stock, option and futures spread order legs to the best possible venue or natively routes your combination seeking price improvement, with IB undertaking the risk of partially executed orders.
• IB SmartRouting Autorecovery^SM re-routes your options orders in the case of an exchange malfunction, with IB undertaking the risk of double executions.