The IBKR Student Trading Lab offers participants to engage in a wide range of resources to simulate the decision-making regarding market participation in paper trading accounts. These resources include the following:
- Trading tools
- Available products
- Algos
- Reporting and analytics capabilities including the Trader Workstation trading platform.
It is also well worth to mention that educators and participants receive similar benefits that current clients such as access to options, stocks, futures, currencies, and bonds domestic and non-domestic. Also, different types of market entry are available such us limit orders and complex algorithmic trading.
Additional features offered under the well-known educators from universities like UCL, West Virginia and the Stevens Institute of Technology include: creating orders for a basket of stocks using an API.