Charlie Bottle

Interactive Brokers: Navigating Turbulent Waters

Zach,

Looks like we have coincident views on CRM and IBKR (check out my articles both).

ON IBKR it is noteworthy that this is the largest financial company in the free world - it has not taken $1 of government bailout money. The Company's founder is clearly cut from a different cloth that the wallstreet bunch.

There may be upside from a possible expansion of listed derivatives if OTC derivatives are forced to move by regulators into clearing house trading platforms (i.e. exchanges). On the brookerage side they are the best in costs, width of international and asset class offering and great in risk managment and cost controls.

Main downside of this company is the lack of customer service and user unfriendliness of the trading platform user ineterface. Also, they could be much more agressive in the marketing and sales effort in my opinion.