Interactive Brokers Traders' Academy
Traders' Academy is Interactive Brokers' free education arm, sitting inside IBKR Campus. Courses are free and open without an account, split into short lessons with quizzes and a certificate of completion at the end. Topics start at what a stock is and move through order types, margin, options, futures, bonds and currencies, with plenty of screens from the actual trading platform.
Because it is written by a broker, the examples are concrete: how a limit order behaves, how margin requirements are calculated, what happens at expiry. The flip side is obvious, the platform shown is IBKR's own, and Trader Workstation is famously dense for a first timer. Combine it with paper trading, which IBKR provides, and the learning curve flattens fast.
Pros
- Free courses, no account required
- Quizzes and completion certificates
- Real platform screens in the examples
- Covers stocks, options and futures
- Paper trading account available
Cons
- Examples tied to the IBKR platform
- Trader Workstation is hard to learn
- Dry, textbook style presentation
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