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Thanks roguetrader, It appears to be far more than just ETF's tho and includes most shares on US exchanges for example HAL (Halliburton) seems only to trade in lot of 100 (except its listing on Swiss exchange) I was unaware that there were such harsh restrictions on the volume of shares you...

Thanks for the reply def. I am looking to use a number of ETF's and while some such has LyXOR's can be brought on the LSE and other select European exchanges with min order sizes of 1, a number such as there LyXOR CRB Commodity tracker which i would be very interested in, trades only in Paris...

I would like to ask one quick question. Look through the contact and securities search on IB, Many stocks and ETF's have minimum order sizes of 100 is this as it sounds where by, I could only buy those stocks and ETF's in lots of 100? I ask this as I will be starting with ~10k GBP and this...

Funding an account? I have gone through the setup process for an individual account, but i cannot seem to find a funding method for transfering GBP from a UK bank account (I set GBP as my base account currency). Am i being very stupid and missing something obvious? Any info would be much...

I am interested in opening an account with IB, but noticed IB seems to require a minimum of 100 prior trades to open an individual account. Is this set in stone? I am a relatively new trader but wish to have a service like IB offers