Recent Content by tryingtolearn

  1. IB margin numbers on my account

    I'd like to close the loop by explaining the source of my misunderstanding, in case someone else has the same issue: I was confusing cash with...
    Post by: tryingtolearn, May 15, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  2. IB margin numbers on my account

    Thanks, I'll do that, the confusion is also due to the fact that my cash amount did go down the full 40k (not just 10k as you said), but then I...
    Post by: tryingtolearn, May 11, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  3. IB margin numbers on my account

    I think I may be misunderstanding something. I thought that to keep the maintenance margin I had to actually have the unused cash balance in my...
    Post by: tryingtolearn, May 11, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  4. IB margin numbers on my account

    One thing that bothers me though, is I invest 40k of cash into some position, now I have a margin maintenance of 10k in my account, which means I...
    Post by: tryingtolearn, May 11, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  5. IB margin numbers on my account

    Thanks, that was very helpful.
    Post by: tryingtolearn, May 11, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  6. IB margin numbers on my account

    So, this all happened 2 days ago, meanwhile I deposited another 50k but the margin has not gone back to 0. I will wait a few more days and see...
    Post by: tryingtolearn, May 10, 2018 in forum: Interactive Brokers

  7. IB margin numbers on my account

    I have a question about why I have an initial and maintenance numbers on my IB account. Here's what I did 1) Converted 10k EUROS to USD using...
    Thread by: tryingtolearn, May 10, 2018, 21 replies, in forum: Interactive Brokers