Educators create assignments and projects for students based on real trading experience on our platform.
Stock Trading Sample Assignments and Resources
IB Trading Platform Basics
Instruct your students to familiarize themselves with one or more of our three trading platforms – desktop, browser-based and mobile - using a variety of IB educational resources. Specific assignments can test your students' general knowledge of our trading platforms and can be organized based on the contents of QuickStart Guides, Users' Guides or Webinars.
Assignment
Trader Workstation
Learn the basics of our market maker-designed TWS desktop trading platform.
Resources
Documentation
Traders' Academy
IBKR Mobile
Learn the basics of our mobile platform on a cell phone or tablet.
Stock Orders
Instruct your students to learn the basics of trading by placing basic and advanced orders.
Assignment
Basic Orders
Place at least three different basic stock order types. For example, market, limit and stop orders.
Resources
Order Types page
Documentation
Traders' Academy
Reference Material
Advanced Stock Orders
Instruct your students to place at least three different advanced stock order types. For example, All or None (AON), Bracket and Conditional orders.
Order Types page
Short Selling
Instruct your students to place an order to sell short.
Assignment
Market Data Fields
Add short selling market data fields to Classic TWS.
Additional Reference
Statements and Trade Confirmations
Instruct your students to check their daily activity statements and trade confirmation reports. Assignments can include running and analyzing a default statement; creating, running and analyzing a customized statement, and running and analyzing a trade confirmation report.
Statements and Trade Confirmation Reports are available from within Account Management.
Assignment
Statements
Run default statements and create customized statements to view detailed information about the account activity, including positions, cash balances, transactions, and more.
Resources
Reporting Users' Guide
Trade Confirmation Reports
Run trade confirmation reports to view trade confirmations separately by asset class.
Reporting Users' Guide
US Stock Commissions
Instruct your students to familiarize themselves with our commissions.
Assignment
IB's Stock Commissions
Review IB's stock commissions and other pertinent pricing information.
Resources
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