Which IB affiliate bought the $28 million worth of MF stock in October?
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/12/14/799831/cme-group-plays-old-school-chicago-politics/ And from this analysis it's looking like it was...
IB is still participating in these threads, aren't they? Not all of the questions are too vague to be answered.
Has anyone published what MF's Special Reserve Bank Account balance was supposed to have been on the Friday one week prior to the bankruptcy?
Where can customers easily check on the amount of cash held in the Reserve Bank Account? This figure falls under the weekly (Friday)...
So the amount in the customer "Reserve Bank Account" at IB based on the June 30 filing was roughly 2.6 billion USD. Is that right?
Does anyone know if this is the formula that brokers use to calculate reserve requirements each week (apparently on Fridays)?...
Yes, by all means try to avoid getting near their limits. But with pm, the margin requirements are opaque and change frequently according to a...
The regulators have looked into it. They've urged broker-dealers to restrain themselves from hyper-re-hypothecation from Monday to Thursday...
Def is senior management. He has stated this another thread.
Yes, but with a pm account, auto liquidation adds a new layer of risk that I was wondering if TOS has a handle on. The process of reducing risk...
Does TOS force liquidate positions due to intra-day margin calls on pm accounts?
What about SSF at OneChicago. Are these classified as futures or securities?
Saico, be careful. There is prop trading going on at IB. Look over this thread:...
Look at the last paragraph on page eight: http://www.finra.org/web/groups/industry/@ip/@reg/@notice/documents/notices/p122388.pdf It appears...
Where do you find the TOS info on PM? Thanks.
Here's a comment letter from the Futures Industry Association (FIA) from 2009 on Rule 1.25. "To prepare this comment letter, FIA formed a...
From the Reuters article it sounds like brokers have 180 days to comply once the rule is published.
The rule was passed at today's meeting. But it's unclear how the business models of most FCM's might be impacted. Among the changes:...
True. It looks like the minimum requirement for the customer's account value was $5 million prior to 2006. Then the minimum was lowered to...
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