Interactive Brokers has expanded its market access by launching select Korean equities through Nextrade, South Korea's first Alternative Trading System (ATS). This development builds on the broker's previous integration of the Korea Exchange (KRX), positioning it as the first major US-based broker to provide global investors with direct access to Korean equities. The move offers clients significantly extended trading hours and access to additional liquidity in one of Asia's most dynamic equity markets.

The firm has enabled IB SmartRouting across both the Korea Exchange and Nextrade. This technology automatically routes orders to the venue offering the best price, aiming to help clients achieve best execution. The integration provides greater flexibility and more opportunities for investors participating in the Korean market.

Key Features of the Integration

• Access: Trading in select Korean equities via Nextrade.
• Liquidity: Access to additional liquidity pools beyond the KRX.
• Hours: Significantly extended trading hours for clients.
• Execution: IB SmartRouting automatically routes orders to the best price available between KRX and Nextrade.

The launch reinforces Interactive Brokers' commitment to providing comprehensive global market access. By leveraging Nextrade's ATS structure alongside the traditional exchange, the broker enhances the trading experience for those focused on Korean assets.

Interactive Brokers has expanded its agentic trading capabilities by adding ChatGPT and Grok to its ecosystem of AI platform integrations. The update broadens the tools available to clients for research, analysis, and the generation of trading instructions. With this release, the broker has extended the range of products available for order instructions to include options, futures, and futures options, in addition to equities and ETFs.

Milan Galik, Chief Executive Officer of Interactive Brokers, stated that the addition of ChatGPT and Grok, alongside support for new asset classes, expands the ways clients can securely connect AI tools for research, analysis, and execution. The company intends to continue broadening the capabilities and asset classes available through these integrations.

Clients can link their existing IBKR account to ChatGPT, Grok, or Claude using their IBKR login. The process requires no new account and involves no extra cost. Notably, passwords or API keys are never shared with the AI provider. Once connected, clients can use natural language to explore their portfolio, analyze markets, and generate order instructions. Every instruction is reviewed and approved by the client in a dedicated AI Instructions tab before any order is submitted to the market.

The integration allows clients to perform various tasks, such as identifying options strategies to protect gains on specific positions or generating orders for futures contracts. It can also compute technical indicators like the Relative Strength Index (RSI) to flag overbought or oversold positions and benchmark portfolio momentum against market index ETFs.

This AI Integration complements the suite of AI-powered tools available directly within Interactive Brokers' platforms. These tools include AI Screeners, which allow natural language searches across more than 70,000 global stocks, and Investment Themes for discovering connected companies and trends. Other tools include Connections for viewing related securities, Ask IBKR for portfolio-specific queries, and AI News Summaries for market recaps filtered to the user's holdings.