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chroniclenyc
 

Registered: Aug 2012
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09-12-12 10:58 PM

From my understanding IB offers intraday margin of 25%, as in if you $25,000 you can buy up $100,000 worth of equities. However, when I was doing margin checks, the maintenance margin and initial margin appear to be the same.

So, if you max out your margin at 4x, you will be liquidated with a small move against you. Is that correct? Seems like a pointless feature to have if that is true since your initial margin must be much lower leverage than 4x for any realistic trading.

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ubstrader_fx
 

Registered: Sep 2012
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09-13-12 01:12 AM

They will do a margin call if you go in the red a few percentage points. This is how it works on retail and institutional trading.

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Hurricane
 

Registered: Jan 2003
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09-13-12 10:10 PM

The margin call at IB will not be after you "go into the red by a few percent". They update your account balances every few minutes. If your available margin is less than 5% of your account balance you'll get a warning message. But if your available margin goes negative, you'll here "ding" indicating that liquidation(s) have occurred. No additional warning, no delays, nada.

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