Yes my account was up 400k, at its peak in April of 2019 so a very short time from when I entered in Oct of 18. My goal wasn't trying to ironclad...
My underlying wasn't nor did it need to be profitable. The hedge was more to address volatility as well as some way to come out on top if the...
I'm not sure if I made it clear with my initial description. The whole premise of what I am doing is largely to not have all my personal net worth...
From a unique situation due to my primary work being a landlord and an S-Corp business owner I have a tremendous amount of paper losses and the...
Yes I am aware of how to do that, but I mean specifically link an option to an underlying. So as if they were purchased together intially as a...
I sold some calls on positions I already own, is it possible in IB to manually group these together as buy-writes?
I assumed it must be some type of bot, the exactly 234 seconds over and over again seemed too odd. Is there a specific defensive strategy I...
I have a position in bio tech I am selling off as a scale order. In general the stock is pretty low volume. I noticed that when I am the lowest...
It has taken some getting used to but your "cash figure" in a portfolio margin account is almost irrelevant. It is all about available funds....
This month IB made a change with their Margin calculations that resulted in a 20% jump in my initial margin vs what it was previously with no...
As a result of several large short SPX options spreads, I have about 800k USD in idle cash with Interactive Brokers. Due to my maintenance...
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