Overall best Bank and broker package What's great: - Comprehensive markets coverage - Feature packed mobile app - Good interest rate on idle cash - Very high FDIC insurance limit What could b... See more

Professional broker with which you can pretty much trade anything you can think of. Good margin interest rate. Great for overall portfolio management and risk analysis. Slightly weaker on complex... See more

IBKR has come a long way. The mobile app is now great and they have fixed all laggy and login issues. Reporting is good but it has silly limits, e.g. can't make flex reports for more than 365 days and... See more

Good: Execution is good, easy and reliable, orders can be routed by choice, order fees are not high. Tax documents are not correct for every country, so expect to do it for yourself. Some chart... See more

The best trading platform around, may have a steep learning curve till you sort things out but well worth the effort. Brilliant script support for automation, with option for paper account setup to tr... See more

IBKR is my trusted broker since 2020. Best part of all it made sure you know about finance and seriousness around your hard earned money. Amazing platform with great app and functionality. Portfolio... See more

I thought that your wallet should be fat enough to sign up with this top broker. At minimum, I shouldn't be able to hold this wallet in my hand :)) XD But they made stocks trading available for ever... See more

Does not accept polish tax ID number in KYC form - rejects it as not valid format. Support first did not respond for 4 days, later advised me to... change my KYC data in a way that would make me... See more

There's lot of good stuff and free resources deposits and withdrawals all fine so far.. been 3 years now. However, platform instability far too common. Often cannot log in. Plus interface far more co... See more

Abysmal support. Site is ridden with bugs. Account opening process will stall and they will cancel your application without so much as telling you. Sessions time out in minutes and require 2FA with th... See more

IB themselves have improved steadily over the years I've been trading with them. There was a noticeable step improvement in their all-round performance once their Australian site was established a f... See more

it offers the broadest range of world equity markets at the most reasonable cost. the execution is excellent. the rest is plain vanilla, which suits me fine. one exception is corporate reorganizatio... See more

User interface is highly complicated. Difficult to transparently see your movements and fees. Fees information is a bit hidden. Mobile app is a crap. Another note is to withdraw your money (SEP... See more

Service is excellent. Prices are good. Even on European markets, there is a complete set of order types. Customer service answers rather promptly. I gathered all my accounts, even the PEA, since IBKR... See more

Too Complicated and Missing Basic Features Tried using this platform, but it’s way more complicated than it needs to be. Something as basic as real-time data—something other platforms offer for free—... See more

Agents are knowledgeable and friendly but there are some built in issues (possibly) bugs. E.g. converting cash! from IRA to ROTH IRA is only possible if the two accounts have the same permission. Usin... See more

I'll start with a problem I have, hoping they see this post and do something about it. I'm a daytrader playing intraday setups using often 1-minute charts. I have a problem with backtesting historic... See more

Low cost, very good quality trades, and easy to use. Nearly perfect. Why not 5 stars? 2 reasons: I was - before Brexit - with IB UK and there was no withholding taxes on interests; IB sent me to Irela... See more

Pros: provides a stable trading platform . Trade commissions are among lowest in industry. Ranked top in Barron's online brokers Cons: TWS desktop user interface is not so friendly. "Trades" rep... See more

I opened an account on Jan 15, 2026, and deposited $84k. IBKR is now refusing to let me move my money for 44 days (until March 24th) citing "internal policy," despite the funds being fully cleared. Th... See more

Opened ticket on 1/18/26; Attempting ROTH conversion (partial), only cash showing did NOT include Sweep Account. IB support replied to "try again and reopen ticket if it does not work" on 01/20/26.... See more

i have been a customer for years. now i am trying to open an additional account with my existing one attached to it, and it just sends me to an endless loop of 2FA login screens. they are closed for p... See more

Poor software TWS and desktop, it can’t load, remember weekly options chains properly for ES NQ, every time we have keep selecting “weekly” otherwise it just shows regular contracts, desktop app is c... See more

Platform sucks and days with alot of activity the site is not stable. Support UX sucks especially. I dont understand how americans accept sites with this bad UX, functions, graphs, functionallies... See more

These guys are by far the biggest POSs in the world! Literally well over an hour before market close they start closing your option positions that are clearly in the money and have no negative impac... See more

TERRIBLE customer service. They try to use AI to automate everything which means you can't talk to an agent easily at all. Can't call, can't email. Have to use their terrible in-app messaging system... See more

During sign up I couldn't get my phone number verified as they don't seem to be able to send text messages. I spoke with support who said basically bad luck, call up someone else. During this process... See more

I wish I could give less than 1 star. My last review I gave them 1 star but I realized it is still to high for the platform. I have insisted for another 2 weeks on trying to get everything working... See more

Impossible to take money out. Closed all positions once realised. Won't process request for 3 working days nor their system allows you to do it as shows balance 0, forces conversion and still 0 to wit... See more

Opened an account as I was told IB could help with management of International Shares I held. Given a different answer every time I called. Appallingly complicated website. NEVER use this company u... See more

I can't login into my account, there's no way to recover it. I send a message, it asks me to send again because I'm registered; but I can't login. This is not somewhere I'd feel confident transfering... See more

If you are trying to trade basic stocks, then go ahead. If, however, you are trying to use leverage, stay away. The platform is incredibly non-intuitive and leverage mechanics make zero sense. I've sp... See more

Currently trying to extract my funds from IBKR. They tie you up with ambiguous policy statements, they place arbitrary limits on how much currency you can convert and withdraw, even with X balance you... See more

I converted Euro to USD to buy US-stocks. 1 entire day after I converted it Interactive Brokers claimed that the conversion was not finished and there it was handled as I would have buy a stock withou... See more

The Broker is REALLY inconvenient to use. It doesn't even automatically automatically convert your money into your main account currency. Every time you buy a stock you first need to exchange the curr... See more

I have 3 advanced University degrees including a MBA in finance and Economics. Why is your platform such a challenge to use? Your charts are godawful! I've been with Thinkorswim for over 20 years and... See more

Lots of investment options with low fees. Web-based portal and a couple of desktop clients are offered. All assume you've used them before and are not particularly discoverable - i.e., they're hard t... See more

It’s a rubbish interface. Overly complicated. Very very poor and slow responses from their message centre help. Woeful product overall. Main merit is wide range of assets that are tradable. Nothing el... See more

TWS platform disconnection from servers during a trading session really creates a chaos and financial loss to investors and traders. The process of getting help from the support and online chat is far... See more

Online portal is virtually unusable during US market open/peak trading times. Constantly freezes/logs you out for at least 2:30-2:40pm + any other times of high activity = costly missed trade... See more

I think IB is at the top of the Canadian brokerage pool. There are a few irritating items, though. - Commissions. However small, particularly for the option trading, the industry trend is to get ri... See more

Access to world markets and financial products is great, trading costs are low. Options rollovers are a bit kludgy even with the tool. Fees add up and it’s not always clear how. The annual reportin... See more

The sign up process says my UK tax number is invalid, which isn't correct as I copied it from HMRC. It was so hard to access Customer service. Keeps making me go through FAQs which has no relevant inf... See more

Terrible Customer Support. I sent web ticket T809348 (after spending many minutes just figuring out how to do it) on August 19th regarding a market data question. I followed up again on August 26th a... See more

The platform is terrific. Head and shoulders better than any other. I rarely need customer service but that’s IBKR’s weakpoint. Ask a question about their wash sale calculations and you’ll get a... See more

The interface is extremely poor. For a company of this size and reputation, it’s disappointing to see such a low-quality website. It feels more like a student developer’s project than a platform b... See more