In the last few articles, we have covered how to open your account with Interactive Brokers, funding your account, and converting to different currencies. Now, you are ready to buy and sell or trade stocks on Interactive Brokers. This includes stocks and options on different stock exchanges. Let us try to get down to it. How Stock Exchanges Work Before you trade on these stock exchanges, you would need to know the mechanics behind how they work. By understanding the mechanics, you will not find what you have to do weird. Intreactive Brokers is a broker that allows you to trade on a stock exchange. The illustration above roughly the role they play in this system. They allow you to Buy and sellGet information about the stocks, including prices, volume and more informationHolds the records of what you own (official term is they are the one that custodize your...