| What it does | Interactive Brokers options desk for day traders and scalpers
| Volatility data and research tools powered by a market-maker-grade fitting and pricing engine
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| Based in | CA
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| Pricing model | Free trial
| Freemium
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| Pricing | 7-day free trial, then $40 per month billed monthly or $400 per year billed once a year. Monthly plan saves $80 versus yearly; yearly plan is equivalent to 10 months.
| Free sample plan with no card required. Retail subscription available for individual personal use in the United States with daily limits on API credits. Institutional plans available at contact pricing for any business use with annual licenses invoiced monthly via ACH or wire. Higher-frequency data
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| Key features | - Multi-symbol options chains with ITM, ATM, and OTM strikes in one table
- One-click market, mid, and close orders
- Automated take profit and stop loss while connected
- Live unrealized P&L updates
- Customizable layout with column resizing and hiding
- Futures options support (ES, MES, NQ, MNQ, RTY, CL, GC)
- Four themes including Terminal quiet desk mode
- Windows, macOS, and Linux support
- Direct connection to TWS or IB Gateway with credentials staying local
| - Fitted volatility surfaces with bid-ask-weighted curves across every expiration
- Accounts for American-style options with early exercise, discrete dividends, and implied borrow rates
- One-minute granularity historical data across 140+ symbols spanning 10 years
- Realized volatility calculations from 385 intraday returns per day
- Vol Screener, Vol Premium, Skew Scanner, and Earnings Vol analysis tools
- Historical simulation using actual bid-ask prices and fitted vol surfaces
- Python package for research workflows
- Interactive visual dashboards for surface inspection and event studies
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for AI agent workflows
- Greeks and constant-maturity metrics via API and dashboards
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| What makes it different | - Reduces TWS clicks from seven steps to three moves for options execution
- Paper trading and live trading use the same desk with no extra setup
- No order batching or extra confirmation steps inside the app
- Preset position sizes per symbol with one-click bulk adjustments
| - Arbitrage-free fitted volatility wings extending beyond quoted book using Lee-moment discipline
- Accessible to quantitative researchers and AI workflows through Python, API, and MCP without requiring market-maker infrastructure
- 10 years of consistent historical data at one-minute granularity across 140+ symbols for rigorous backtesting
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 4 ● no change since last check | Not checked yet ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 3 | 0 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 25 | 0 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 49 | 0 |
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