Interactive Brokers Launches Connections Tool for Smarter Investment Discovery: Uncovering Trading Ideas and Analyzing Opportunities Across Multiple Asset Classes and Market Themes

Interactive Brokers has launched Connections, a new feature that helps investors discover trading ideas and analyze investment opportunities by mapping relationships across multiple asset classes and market themes. The tool combines cross-asset insights from stocks, options, futures, bonds, and thematic data, offering investors a centralized view of linked opportunities. Connections can be accessed directly through the Interactive Brokers platform and leverages the company's broad access to over 160 global markets.

Interactive Brokers has introduced Connections, a new feature designed to help investors uncover trading ideas and evaluate investment opportunities by mapping relationships across multiple asset classes and market themes. This innovative tool combines cross-asset insights from stocks, options, futures, bonds, and thematic data, providing a centralized view of linked opportunities. Connections is accessible directly through the Interactive Brokers platform and leverages the company's extensive access to over 160 global markets [1].

Developed by Interactive Brokers, Connections enables users to explore related stocks, ETFs, options, economic indicators, and other products from one centralized location. By integrating data on peer companies, themes, Forecast Contracts tied to economic indicators, ETFs, options, futures, bonds, and trading strategies, the tool offers a comprehensive and flexible toolkit for discovering new opportunities, managing risk, or building ideas around a specific stock or theme [1].

Real-world use cases for Connections include analyzing a well-known technology company and uncovering lesser-known competitors in cloud storage, exploring the Cloud Computing theme to view other connected names within the industry, or identifying companies linked to emerging topics like Carbon Capture through ETFs, revenue streams, or macroeconomic factors [1].

With Connections, investors can analyze all connected instruments and strategies in one view, explore related companies, thematic trends, Forecast Contracts, and sector-aligned ETFs, as well as other tradable instruments like futures, options, and bonds. The tool also allows for comparing companies and performance across market themes and sectors, identifying ways to hedge, diversify, or expand exposure using a broader market context [1].

In addition to Connections, Interactive Brokers provides a comprehensive set of discovery tools, including global valuation comparisons, sentiment analysis, bond screening, and securities lending insights, designed to help investors uncover opportunities across markets, asset classes, and investment styles [1].

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[1] https://www.tradersmagazine.com/am/interactive-brokers-launches-connections-tool-for-smarter-investment-discovery/