Why Trade Online with Best Mastery Capital?
Lower Your Costs to Maximize Your Return
Our transparent, low commissions and financing rates, and best price executions
minimize your costs to help you maximize your returns.
Generate Higher
Returns
We offer lower commissions, no ticket charges; no minimums; no technology, software, platform, or reporting fees; and low financing rates, with higher loan values on portfolio margin accounts over $100K. Click below to see how our low costs compare to other brokers.
Learn MoreBest Price
Execution
Most brokers trade against your orders or sell them to others to execute who will trade against them. The resulting poor execution probably costs you more than the commission you pay. BMC SmartRouting
Learn MoreLowest Margin
Rates
We offer the lowest margin loan interest rates of any broker, according to the Barron's 2017 online broker review. Click below to calculate your own sample margin loan interest rate.
Learn MoreStock Yield
Enhancement Program
Earn income on your fully-paid stock shares in our Stock Yield Enhancement Program. The program lets us borrow your shares in exchange for cash collateral, and then lend the shares to traders who are willing to pay a fee to borrow them. You will be paid a loan fee each day that your stock in on loan.
Learn MoreYour Gateway to the World's Markets
Direct market access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds,
ETFs and CFDs from a single BMC Universal Account™.
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Markets
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Countries
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Currencies
Access market data 24 hours a day and six days a week to stay
connected to all global markets.
Convert currencies at market determined rates as low as 1/10 of a basis point, or create a position collateralized by a non-native currency.
Fund your account in multiple currencies. Trade assets denominated in multiple currencies from a single account.
Learn MoreInnovative Technology
We've been building online trading
technology that provides competitive pricing, speed,
size, diversity of global products, advanced trading tools to our clients for 40 years. Year after year, our robust technology supports record numbers of Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs).4
Trading Platforms
Our online trading platforms have been designed with the professional trader in mind:
- Optimize your online trading speed and efficiency with our market maker-designed Trader Workstation (TWS).
- Trade your BMC account on-the-go from just about any mobile device with BMC TWS.
- Use our HTML-based WebTrader, a clean and simple interface that works from behind a firewall.
Advanced Trading Tools
Our suite of Option Labs and advanced online trading tools offer support to help you discover and implement optimal trading strategies. For example, our Probability Lab offers a practical way to think about options without the complicated mathematics, and the Option Strategy Lab lets you create simple and complex multi-leg option orders based on your own price and volatility forecast.
Learn MoreOrder Types and Algos
Trader Workstation (TWS) supports over 60 order types, from the most basic limit order to advanced trading to the most complex algorithmic trading, to help you execute a wide variety of trading strategies.
Learn MoreSophisticated Risk Management
Real-time market-risk management and real-time monitoring provide a comprehensive measure of risk exposure across multiple asset classes around the globe and real-time data that gives you the edge you need to react quickly to the markets.
Learn MoreComprehensive Reporting
Our statements and reports include real-time trade confirmations, margin details, transaction cost analysis, sophisticated portfolio analysis, tax optimization and a variety of other supplemental reports.
Learn MoreSecurities Financing
From trade date to settlement date, our Securities Financing solutions provide depth of availability, transparent rates, global reach and automated lending and borrowing tools to professional traders.
Learn MoreRisk Management & Control
Our advanced technology gives you the tools you need to manage and control your trading risk.
Real-Time Margin
A real-time margin system that continuously enforces limits on an account-by-account basis lets you monitor their margin cushion directly in TWS.
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Portfolio Risk Management
Sophisticated portfolio risk management via the BMC Risk NavigatorSM, which is free to BMC clients.
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Portfolio Margin Accounts
Portfolio Margin Accounts with real-time risk management can provide increased leverage with greater safety.
Learn MoreComprehensive Reporting
Easy to view and customize, our statements and reports cover all aspects of your Best Mastery Capital account.
Tax Optimizer
Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.
Tax Optimizer
Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.
Tax Optimizer
Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.
Tax Optimizer
Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.
Tax Optimizer
Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.
Tax Optimizer
Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.
Tax Optimizer
Tax Optimizer lets you change your tax lot-matching method to optimize your gains and losses.
Investors' Marketplace
Investors and clients can meet and interact with third-party service providers to connect and conduct business.
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- Individual traders and investors, financial advisors, fund managers and third-party service providers can meet and do business together.
- Search the marketplace and connect to a variety of service providers, including advisors, hedge funds, research analysts, business developers and administrators.
- Advertise your own third-party services to individual and institutional users worldwide.
- Free to advertise and search, the Investors' Marketplace is
Financial Strength and Stability
Our strong capital position, conservative balance sheet and automated risk controls protect BMC and our clients from large trading losses.
Best Mastery Capital Group (IBG LLC) equity capital exceeds $6 billion1. 16.6% of BMCG LLC is owned by the publicly traded company, Best Mastery Capital Group, Inc. and the remaining 83.4% is owned by our employees and affiliates.
Unlike other firms, where management owns a small share, we participate substantially in the downside just as much as in the upside which makes us run our business conservatively. We hold no material positions in OTC securities or derivatives. We hold no CDOs, MBS or CDS. The gross amount of our portfolio of debt securities, with the exception of US governments debt securities, is less than 10% of our equity capital.%。
- Includes Best Mastery Capital Group and its affiliates.
On Demand Learning at Traders' University
Even the most experienced traders need to keep learning to stay ahead. Traders' University provides information about BMC products and services in many different ways. Choose the method that fits your own learning style.
Webinars
We offer an extensive program of free trader webinars. Watch, listen, and ask questions from your home or office computer as our webinar instructors clearly describe our technology, trading, and markets around the world. Our webinars are also recorded so if you can't attend a live webinar, you can experience it on demand at your own convenience.
Courses and Interactive Tours
Take one of our courses to explore stocks, options, futures and Forex trading, or get up to speed quickly on Trader Workstation and TWS online trading tools with one of our interactive tours.
BMC Traders' Insight
Traders' Insight is a key resource for market participants seeking timely commentary directly from industry professionals on the front lines of today's fast-moving markets.
And more...
Traders' University gives you easy access to a variety of documentation, including all of our users' guides, TWS Cheat Sheets, QuickStart guides, FAQs and more to help you learn how to use our platforms, tools and services.
- Best Mastery Capital earned top ratings from Barron's for the past seven years with a 4.5 star rating. March 20, 2017, March 23, 2016, March 21, 2015, March 17, 2014, March 11, 2013, March 14, 2012 and March 14, 2011 Barron's Best Online Brokers. Criteria included Trading Experience and Technology, Usability, Mobile, Range of Offerings, Research Amenities, Portfolio Analysis & Reports, Customer Service, Education and Security, and Costs. Supporting documentation for claims and statistical information will be provided upon request. Barron's is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
- Includes Best Mastery Capital Group and predecessor companies.
- Includes Best Mastery Capital Group and its affiliates.
- First Quarter 2017 Results