Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR)

lawrenman (37.65) Submitted: 5/5/2007 9:17:33 AM : Start Price: $26.27 IBKR Score: -37.82

This is by far the cheapest and most sucessful discount brokerage. They will grow, because more investors will turn to them because of the sham that is Scottrade (which doesn't let you make deposits online), anyway, the successful IPO and the fact that this will only increase their customer base are the reasons this company will make huge waves in the whole industry with the new money they have for advertizing or core improvments to their trading base.

HoustonMatt (40.51) Submitted: 5/5/2007 7:51:27 AM : Start Price: $26.27 IBKR Score: -37.82

Interactive Brokers Group provides an online portal to the derivatives market (futures, options) for commodities, currencies, bonds. Their IPO follows on the heals of another big IPO in the Risk Management / Derivatives broker FCSX (up 50% in 3 months). Risk management is a way for producers and consumers to lock in prices and protect against big price swings in commodities by hedging with futures. Hedging provides more liquidity to commodity markets and provides more transparency.