Interactive Brokers integrates Kalshi, aiming to become a super entry point for prediction markets

Kalshi, a prediction market platform, announced that it will officially integrate into the trading environment of global online brokerage Interactive Brokers (IBKR), enabling investors to directly manage their Kalshi event contract positions within the existing IBKR trading interface, and to track them in sync with traditional investment portfolios such as stocks, options, and futures.

Kalshi enters IBKR: prediction markets move from crypto-native circles to mainstream broker trading

According to Kalshi, in the future, IBKR clients will be able to view the prediction market’s real-time liquidity, prices, and fees on the same trading screen, and include prediction market positions in existing portfolio management. The first batch of markets will focus on themes such as election results, climate events, and economic indicators. IBKR’s official announcement also pointed out that this new platform integration is not limited to Kalshi; it also includes CME Group and ForecastEx, forming a prediction market entry point that allows cross-platform price comparison and execution of trades.

Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour said that IBKR is a benchmark in the global financial brokerage industry, and its integration of Kalshi symbolizes the growing importance of prediction markets for mature investors and financial institutions. IBKR also emphasized that the new interface allows clients to manage prediction market positions and existing portfolios on a single platform, and includes integrated reporting and real-time position tracking.

This signals a shift in the narrative of prediction markets: they are no longer just “event betting” on platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi, but are gradually being packaged as event contracts within financial markets, risk-hedging tools, and information price discovery mechanisms.

But IBKR isn’t just starting now: ForecastTrader already existed earlier this year

However, it’s worth noting that Kalshi’s connection to IBKR does not mean that Interactive Brokers is only now entering prediction markets. In fact, IBKR launched its own prediction market product, IBKR ForecastTrader, as early as the beginning of this year, allowing eligible users to trade Forecast Contracts provided by ForecastEx.

(Interactive Brokers’ prediction market product IBKR ForecastTrader has officially launched)

The product logic of IBKR ForecastTrader is similar to event contracts. Investors can trade on “YES / NO” binary questions, with topics covering political, economic, financial, and climate indicators. Contracts are typically settled at $1 when the outcome is confirmed; if the prediction is wrong, the contract goes to zero—so the maximum loss on each trade is limited to the amount invested. IBKR’s official page also explains that ForecastEx Forecast Contracts are exchange-listed contracts, covering topics including U.S. elections, economic, financial, and climate indicators.

Content related to ForecastTrader had already appeared in IBKR Campus in early January 2026, and it revealed that Interactive Brokers LLC is a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant and also a clearing member and related entity of ForecastEx LLC. ForecastEx is the CFTC-registered designated contract market and derivatives clearing organization.

From ForecastEx to Kalshi: IBKR wants a super entry point for prediction markets

IBKR describes this new functionality as a “unified prediction market interface.” Clients don’t need to visit different platforms separately; they can access event contracts from Kalshi, CME Group, and ForecastEx within the same IBKR account. This upgrades IBKR from merely offering its own ForecastEx contracts into a cross-platform prediction market trading entry point.

This could also become a key turning point for the development of prediction markets. In the past, most prediction market traffic was acquired by the platforms themselves—such as Kalshi focusing on compliant event contracts, while Polymarket expanded with crypto wallets and on-chain liquidity. But when traditional brokers like IBKR begin embedding prediction markets into existing trading interfaces, event contracts have the opportunity to be viewed by stock, futures, forex, and options investors as part of the same “investment toolbox.”

For retail investors, this means a lower barrier to “trading future events.” For institutional investors, prediction markets may be seen as a supplementary risk management tool. For example, companies could use climate event contracts to observe how markets price extreme weather, and use economic data contracts to hedge risks related to interest rates, inflation, or business-cycle expectations.

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