Level: Beginner
The IBKR Student Trading Lab (STL) offers an extensive toolkit for educators of college-level finance courses to help bring real-world financial decisions and outcomes to their curricula. This catalogue of STL’s resources illustrates how IBKR’s award-winning trading platforms and tools, wealth of service offerings, and educational tutorials, combine to create a hands-on experience for students of all skill sets to help master their learning objectives – and all at no cost.
Lesson: #1
Overview of Offerings
This lesson provides an overview of the IBKR Student Trading Lab’s (STL) extensive toolkit of offerings, including the platforms, tools, and services available to college finance students. Through this introduction, we’ll highlight how STL participants, of all skill set levels, can experience a hands-on approach to a variety of use cases, including coursework that may involve computational finance, as well as technical and fundamental analyses, as part of their curriculum.
Lesson: #2
IBKR’s Platforms
Take a guided tour through some of the main features of IBKR’s platforms, including our award-winning, flagship Trader Workstation (TWS), Client Portal, IBKR Mobile and GlobalTrader apps, as well as APIs, certain specialty trading platforms, and more.
Lesson: #3
IBKR’s Education & Tutorials
In this lesson, we’ll walk you through the pillared halls of the IBKR Campus, where our treasure trove of educational content is available through the Student Trading Lab at no cost. Our offerings include a wealth of economic and financial courses and tutorials, daily market news and analyses, engaging podcasts, live webinars, quant-related material, and more!
Lesson: #4
Resources for Fundamental Analysis
The IBKR Student Trading Lab (STL) offers an extensive toolkit to complement fundamental, technical, and computational college classroom curricula. This lesson highlights some of the resources available through STL that college finance courses requiring fundamental analysis can use to help meet their learning objectives. Learn what tools and services we offer to help perform economic, industry, and company analyses, as well as conduct risk management, and values-based investing.
Lesson: #5
Tools for Technical Analysis
The IBKR Student Trading Lab (STL) offers an extensive toolkit to complement fundamental, technical, and computational college classroom curricula. This lesson highlights some of the resources available through STL that college finance courses requiring technical analysis can use to help meet their learning objectives. Learn what tools and services we offer to help create, configure, and read charts, as well as use technical indicators such as simple moving averages, Bollinger Bands, MACD, RSI, and several others.
Lesson: #6
For Computational Finance Courses
The IBKR Student Trading Lab (STL) offers an extensive toolkit to complement fundamental, technical, and computational college classroom curricula. This lesson highlights some of the more advanced resources available through STL that can support computational finance / quantitative analysis in college courses.
Lesson: #7
Options-Specific Tools and Services
By participating in the IBKR Student Trading Lab, educators and students will find a treasure trove of useful tools and services to help them trade and study options. This lesson provides an overview of those options-specific resources and examines why IBKR is a ‘go-to’ specialist in this area.
Lesson: #8
Analytics, Reports, Marketplaces, and More
The IBKR Student Trading Lab (STL) not only offers an extensive toolkit to complement fundamental, technical, and computational college classroom curricula, but also provides critical tools that can help educators and students analyze and manage their portfolios, perform custom reporting, as well as access specialized tools and services such as IBKR GlobalAnalyst, the Bond Marketplace, and Investors’ Marketplace.
Lesson: #9
Recap
Learn how the IBKR Student Trading Lab's (STL) extensive toolkit of offerings can help educators of college-level finance courses provide a real-world, hands-on trading experience for their students, as well as make available the tools to help them analyze and manage their portfolios, perform custom reporting, and much more!