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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.

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Flag Objectionable Practices

Select the business practices you'd like to avoid, like weapons manufacturing or animal testing.

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Build Your Responsible Portfolio

Buy, sell, and trade with confidence knowing that your investments align with your values.

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Impact app UI Values with high alignment for ocean life value
Clean Air Clean Air
Company Transparency Company Transparency
Consumer Safety Consumer Safety
Ethical Leadership Ethical Leadership
Fair Labor and Thriving Communities Fair Labor and Thriving Communities
Gender Equality Gender Equality
Land Health Land Health
LGBTQ Inclusion LGBTQ Inclusion
Mindful Business Models Mindful Business Models
Ocean Life Ocean Life
Pure Water Pure Water
Racial Equality Racial Equality
Sustainable Product Lifecycle 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.

Scoring Methodology

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!

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IMPACT app UI red flag business practices

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.

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Carbon Offset

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.

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Pick Your
Stock
Pick Your
$ Amount
Share Price1 Number of Shares
NFLX $25 $644.50 0.0388
TSLA $25 $173.79 0.1439
GOOG $25 $176.03 0.1420
AMZN $25 $184.69 0.1354
$100 Stock Portfolio

Any trading symbols displayed are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to portray recommendations.
[1] Share prices as of June 11, 2024.

Trade in Fractions

No trade is too small, and no stock is too expensive. Invest with as little as $1, regardless of the price of a stock. Put small cash balances to work to maximize your returns!

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.

Select a Stock You Own

Select the Stock You Want

With a tap, sell the stock you own and buy the equivalent amount of stock you want.

Swap Them

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.

Options Wizard
Options Wizard

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.

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Simulated Trading

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.

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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.

  1. 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.
  2. Share prices as of June 11, 2024.
  3. 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.