IMPACT Features
IMPACT by Interactive Brokers
Features
Impact Investing Made Easy
Invest with IMPACT
The IMPACT App helps you align your portfolio with companies that share your values. Use the app to understand how a firm supports your values, select business practices you want to avoid and build a socially responsible portfolio.
Identify Your Values
Choose the values you find important or very important, like gender equality or ocean life.
Flag Objectionable Practices
Select the business practices you'd like to avoid, like weapons manufacturing or animal testing.
Build Your Responsible Portfolio
Buy, sell, and trade with confidence knowing that your investments align with your values.
Clean Air
Company Transparency
Consumer Safety
Ethical Leadership
Fair Labor and Thriving Communities
Gender Equality
Land Health
LGBTQ Inclusion
Mindful Business Models
Ocean Life
Pure Water
Racial Equality
Sustainable Product Lifecycle
IMPACT Values
Align your portfolio with one, several, or all 13 IMPACT Values, which cover the spectrum of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
Optimize Your Impact Score
Based on your preferences, IMPACT will show you at a glance how your portfolio aligns with your values. Want to dig deeper? We make it easy to understand where a company aligns (or conflicts) with your beliefs.
Share Your Values
Post your portfolio's IMPACT grade and values you support to social network platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and other platforms. Let your friends and family know how closely your portfolio aligns with the issues you care most deeply about!
At-a-Glance Data
on Business Practices
IMPACT lets you know when a company you're considering investing in is involved in business practices you find unacceptable, such as animal testing or unchecked greenhouse emissions. No internet deep-dive required.
Socially Responsible Investing. Simplified.
IMPACT makes it easy to build a portfolio more in line with your values by identifying opportunities to invest in companies that fit your socially responsible trading objectives.
Offset Your Carbon to
Help Lower Carbon Emissions.
Use the IMPACT App to offset a selection of carbon-emitting activities, a specific activity or a custom amount of "carbon tons". As you offset your footprint, we keep track of the number of tons of carbon you've neutralized both in the app and in your statements so you can easily see the difference you've made.
Trade Free and Commission Free1
We don't charge fees or commissions for US stocks and ETFs. We won't charge for inactivity or account balance minimums either. Get started with as little as $1.
Unhappy with an Investment?
Swap it.
Swap stocks you own for stocks you would like with a single tap. Simply select the stocks, click swap, and that's it.
With a tap, sell the stock you own and buy the equivalent amount of stock you want.
Unhappy with an Investment?
Swap it.
Swap stocks you own for stocks you would like with a single tap. Simply select the stocks, click swap, and that's it.
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1. Select a Stock You Own
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2. Select the Stock You Want
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3. Swap Stocks
With a tap, sell the stock you own and buy the equivalent amount of stock you want.
Worldwide Options Trading
Trade options on 30+ market centers using tools like Options Chain, Option Exercise Tool and the Options Wizard. Choose from four levels of options trading permissions to find choices more precisely aligned with your options trading strategies.
Build Single or Multi-Leg Options Strategies2
The Options Chain lets you quickly view and monitor options prices through time. Click a single bid or ask price to load an option in the order entry panel or use the Option Chain window to add multiple single option legs or multi-leg options to a watchlist.
Exercise Options with a Few Taps
The Option Exercise Tool lets you manually exercise options prior to their expiration date if you are in a complex, multi-leg strategy, looking to capture a dividend or for various corporate actions. You can also exercise options on Expiration Friday that would normally be allowed to lapse according to clearinghouse rules.
Not sure where to start with options?
Use the Options Wizard!
Answer a few questions about your expectations of the future stock price movement, and the Options Wizard will present you with some standard strategies you can filter by aggressiveness, Probability of Profit, Max Gain and more.
Trade Popular US Stocks and ETFs Around the Clock
Capture more market opportunities by trading popular US stocks and ETFs when market-moving news happens, during local market hours or whenever it is convenient for you.
How US Overnight Trading Works
Overnight Trading Hours are from 8:00 pm ET to 3:30 am ET, with the first session beginning on Sunday at 8:00 pm ET and the last session ending on Friday at 3:30 am ET and trades executed between 8:00 pm and 12:00 am will carry a trade date of the following trade day.
All clients with US Stock trading permission will have access to US Overnight Trading and can take advantage of multiple order types and free overnight market data.
For a full listing of the available stocks and ETFs see the exchange listing page here.
Simulated Trading
Try Before You Trade
Not ready to open a real account? No problem. Sign up for simulated trading in seconds and try IMPACT before opening a full brokerage account.
Disclosures
Any trading symbols displayed are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to portray recommendations. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
- IMPACT users who are US residents are enrolled in IBKR Lite by default. OnClose or OnOpen US listed stock orders are free for IBKR Lite clients so long as the order does not exceed 10% of an account's monthly US stock trading volume, otherwise your account will be charged USD 0.005 per share. Market orders placed prior to regular trading hours will be treated as Market OnOpen orders and count towards client threshold. Non-US residents and US residents who opt for IBKR Pro pay IB's standard commissions.
- Multiple leg strategies, including spreads, will incur multiple transaction costs.
- The IMPACT application is a product of Interactive Brokers LLC that allows clients to generate analysis of their IBKR brokerage accounts using environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") data provided by unaffiliated third-party data providers along with proprietary in-house algorithms and trade and account data contained in IBKR's systems. For more information, please see the "Interactive Brokers LLC Disclosure regarding Use of IMPACT and ESG Dashboard and IMPACT Application".
- Any discussion or mention of an ETF is not to be construed as a recommendation, promotion or solicitation. All investors should review and consider associated investment risks, charges and expenses of the investment company or fund prior to investing. Before acting on this material, you should consider whether it is suitable for your particular circumstances and, as necessary, seek professional advice.