(Article updated on June 2024)
Trade with Interactive Brokers (IBKR) across Futures, Stocks, and ETFs and leverage your trading talent with Darwinex.
The Darwinex-IBKR integration aims to attract more talented traders that can benefit from a truly multi-asset and multi-platform infrastructure, enabling them to attract seed and investor capital at scale. We believe this move enriches our ecosystem, benefiting the entire customer base: The more talented traders, the more investors, trust, and capital on our platform.
In this article, we’ll discuss:
1. Integration with Interactive Brokers
2. Types of account
3. Current IBKR clients
4. Platforms available
Integration with Interactive Brokers
Traders can trade from their Interactive Brokers account with the support of Darwinex’s Customer Success Team. Our IBKR relationship allows clients to trade from their IBKR account, with IBKR trading conditions and fixed prices but with the added value of transforming their trading strategy into an investable index – a DARWIN – thus benefiting from our seed and investor capital introduction service.
*Please note that investment in futures based DARWINs is not available at the moment.
Types of account
The newly available accounts perfectly suit the different needs of our traders:
DARWIN IBKR Accounts
Trade as you normally would, grow your Assets Under Management (AuM) and earn performance fees on the profits you generate by creating your DARWIN index.
We offer two types of DARWIN IBKR accounts:
Stocks and ETFs
The most liquid USD-denominated Stocks and ETFs with the added value of attracting investor capital with your DARWIN.
*ETFs are only available for Interactive Brokers professional clients and clients outside the European Union.
Futures
Trade Futures on the CME, CBOE, EUREX and ICE exchanges, available to trade long and short.
*Please note that investment in futures based DARWINs is not available for the time being.
We remind clients that by creating a DARWIN index, they’ll have access to our analytical toolkit to assess their strategy, participate for seed capital, and attract investor capital on our platform. As usual, a DARWIN can facilitate traders growing their Assets under Management (AuM) from three sources:
- Seed Capital: we allocate seed capital every month to the best strategies in our seed capital allocation programme (DarwinIA) and we pay a 15% success fee on the profits generated on those allocations.
- Third-party capital: investors buy a DARWIN and its provider receives 15% of the profits generated on investor capital.
- Darwinex Pro: traders can introduce investors, using their own brand and conditions.
Classic IBKR Account
A Classic IBKR Account allows traders to trade all the assets available in Interactive Brokers under IBKR fixed pricing conditions and the support of our team:
- Options
- Currencies
- Bonds
- Funds
- Futures
- Stocks
- And more, on 150 global markets.
If a trader later decides he would like to create a DARWIN from this account, we’ll soon enable a feature that will allow them to start a DARWIN from their existing Classic IBKR account without the need to open a new account. We’ll analyze the traded assets eligible for a DARWIN (futures, US stocks, and ETFs) and we’ll migrate the track record to a DARWIN IBKR Account.
Current IBKR clients
Traders currently trading with Interactive Brokers and looking to attract investment via Darwinex, only need to follow a few simple steps to move their account to us. There’s absolutely zero paperwork involved and zero changes to their Interactive Brokers account: they won’t need to close their account with IBKR to access our services or deposit money with us.
The IBKR account moved to us will be treated as a Classic Account first. If a trader then decides to create a DARWIN index, they’ll need to contact us with the request. We’ll then analyze the strategy and migrate the track record to a DARWIN IBKR Account, taking into account the performance obtained on the assets eligible for a DARWIN (futures, US stocks, and ETFs) exclusively.
Platforms available
Traders will be able to trade all of the assets via a wide range of platforms integrated with Interactive Brokers such as:
- TradingView
- Trader WorkStation
- NinjaTrader
- MultiCharts
- Zorro IB Bridge
- IB Gateway
- Many more.
We hope that this news results in a whole new world of possibilities for our traders!
As always, if you have any questions or comments you can write to info@darwinex.com and our Customer Success Team will be happy to assist you.
Good Trading to all!
Your Darwinex Team.
Futures, Stocks and ETFs are not suitable for all. They are also complex instruments and have a high risk of losing money quickly due to leverage. Futures, Stocks and ETFs do not have negative balance protection and losses could exceed the deposited balance of your account.