You'll be hedged, but you'll still be paying at least one night of insane borrow fees, or three if the settlements span a weekend.
I was scrutinizing my statements recently, and a useful thing I found was that you can get a lot more detail by creating a flex query. You can...
Not positive, but I think that's only true for futures margin, not equity options. My understanding is you have a separate commodities...
One risk worth noting is that pnl on the futures leg is settled nightly, but you don't receive pnl on the stock leg until expiry. So if the stock...
Portfolio margin or Reg T? In either case I think it should recognize the offsetting gain in the stock.
Right, it's fully credited to your cash balance. The cash settles T+1.
@Lee- had a post about this: IB Cash vs short term bonds. It seems for small orders you need to go above the ask to get filled.
Here's the schedule of cutoff times: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=deliveryExerciseActions&p=physical Looks like they started...
They're traded on OneChicago. The spreads are too wide for day trading, but if you're willing to hold to expiry the rates can be pretty good (for...
Agreed, there are a bunch of trades I would do if I could net the long and short balances. If you're looking at liquid stocks on the short leg...
You're correct that the long and short balances are treated independently, but you need to use the tiered rates. The rebate rate shown in TWS is...
Hmm...it might have been logging in on a different computer or with a different username (I have two linked to the same account) rather than...
It's happened to me a couple times. If you expand that trade, I think the individual fills will sum to 20. It seems to occur if the fills take...
I'm not too familiar with how futures affect the interest calculations, but I can add a few things. If you are short any stocks, you have to...
Sure. I'm assuming an individual investor with spare cash earning next to nothing. Even then there are probably better ways to earn interest.
Yeah, probably should have quoted @ajacobson's post. I agree that with GLD, any dividend would probably be a special dividend and the contracts...
He's going long stock/short synthetic. He'd benefit if there was a surprise dividend. Even if it gets called away he benefits because he's being...
If the stock is fairly liquid and you expect to hold for a while, you should be able to get a rebate with options by selling a synthetic (but...
You are charged the fee rate. Separately, you earn interest on the proceeds from the short sale according to the schedule here. For example, if...
Actually GS was relatively small in mortgages back then. It's part of the reason they were able to turn their position around while other banks...
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