About Island Island s mission is to provide investors with an open, transparent and fully accessible marketplace. By placing your orders with Island, your broker often avoids the costs and time-loss linked to these middlemen, and takes advantage of a cheap, fast and reliable execution of trades.
Island is the pioneer in bringing the advantages of electronic markets to individual investors.
Looking Ahead Island provides investors with a virtual seat on the trading floor, enabling investors to meet directly at the marketplace without having to rely on traditional market intermediaries. Each time an order is received, Island's system is instantaneously scanned to determine if there is a matching order. If a matching order exists, the order is executed immediately. All orders are matched on a strict price-time priority without regard to the number of shares or the identity of the person entering the order. Further, Island makes its data freely available to the public over the Internet, through the BookViewer.