GREENWICH, Conn., August 21, 2025 — Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, today announced the launch of Connections, a powerful new tool that helps investors uncover trading ideas and evaluate investment opportunities by highlighting connected investment ideas across the global market. Built directly into the IBKR platform, Connections enables users to explore related stocks, ETFs, options, economic indicators and other products from one centralized location.
Because Interactive Brokers offers access to one of the most extensive selections of global products in the industry, Connections can surface a broad set of related products. By combining cross-asset insights from stocks, options, futures, bonds, Forecast Contracts, themes, and more across 160 markets, Connections helps investors discover relationships that might otherwise go unnoticed.
“Clients of Interactive Brokers can access stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, funds, and more across 160 global markets from a single integrated platform,” said Milan Galik, Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Brokers. “That breadth is the result of decades of work expanding our product offering and geographic reach, and it’s what makes Connections possible. By bringing all of this together, Connections helps our clients uncover opportunities that other platforms simply cannot match.”
The Connections feature includes data on peer companies, themes, Forecast Contracts tied to economic indicators such as housing starts and interest rates, ETFs, options, futures, bonds, and trading strategies. This gives investors a complete and flexible toolkit for discovering new opportunities, managing risk, or building ideas around a specific stock or theme.
Real-World Use Cases:
A user analyzing a well-known technology company may uncover lesser-known competitors in cloud storage and explore the Cloud Computing theme to view other connected names within that industry.
An investor with a long position in a major homebuilder can explore Forecast Contracts linked to new home sales or view options strategies that could reduce exposure to shifts in housing data.
For emerging topics like Carbon Capture, users can identify companies linked to the theme through ETFs, revenue streams, or macroeconomic factors, revealing new ideas and insights that may not be immediately obvious.
With the Connections tool, investors can:
Analyze all connected instruments and strategies in one view
Explore related companies, thematic trends, Forecast Contracts, and sector-aligned ETFs, as well as other tradable instruments like futures, options and bonds
Compare companies and performance across market themes and sectors
Identify ways to hedge, diversify, or expand exposure using a broader market context
In addition to Connections, Interactive Brokers provides a comprehensive set of discovery tools, including global valuation comparisons, sentiment analysis, bond screening, and securities lending insights, designed to help investors uncover opportunities across markets, asset classes, and investment styles.