Now let me introduce interactive brokers are short ibkr and I'm here on the Interactive Brokers website
for the European market.
So I for Ireland.
But depending on your region or your country, you should go to the right affiliate website.
So if you scroll here down, then you will find.
Information on other interactive brokers affiliates.
And there you will find the websites, for example, for the US market or for the Canadian market.
For the UK market.
Then for Central Europe, for Australia, then India, Hong Kong, Japan and also Singapore.
Now, Interactive brokers is probably one of the largest and most reliable online brokers in the market,
and they're definitely some good reasons why you should select interactive brokers.
So first of all, interactive brokers is available in over 200 countries.
So there's hardly any country where you can't create an account.
And you can also check here the country list, so the available country list and you can actually have
a look for your country.
But again, there's hardly any country.
Where you can't create an account here.
And also in terms of available trading instruments and products, there's hardly any broker that offers
the same full range of instruments.
So from stocks to options, futures, currencies, CFDs bonds, funds and more.
And you can check here the available instruments and the trading and products.
And the example here for the European market, these are the available instruments or stocks, ETFs,
options, futures, then spot or cash currencies, CFDs, cryptos, metals bonds and also mutual funds.
However, please keep in mind that the products differ from region to region or from country to country.
And for example, CFD trading is prohibited in the US market.
Next, Interactive brokers offers low costs, so low spreads and low commissions depending on the trade
size, of course.
And you can check this here under pricing.
So here you will find commissions, margin rates and more.
And once again, interactive brokers is one of the leading and most reliable brokers in terms of size
and financial stability and also for our purposes.
So there's a pretty great API.
So application programming interface that allows us to execute orders and to make trades with and from
Python.
Now for Beginners, the website and all its information seems to be overwhelming, but we will cover
many.
But of course not all topics.
And in case you want to know more than feel free to go here to the education section and here you will
find the Traders Academy with very interesting and helpful blogs, videos and more.
So this was the first introduction to interactive brokers and we will continue in the next lectures.
Thanks for watching and see you there.
Bye.