What is your firm's minimum requirement for PM accounts? I know IB requires 100K. Does anyone know what other firms (eTrade, TD, etc) require?
Info on a live broadcast of the CFTC meeting on this issue Monday: http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr6148-11
Good point. I was also wondering about the market impact of FCM's suddenly having to deleverage.
why?
This info may be too general for you but the citations in the Endnotes might provide some direction....
But the change would mean substantially less leverage available to all FCM's who trade in-house, right?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/29/us-financial-cftc-meeting-idUSTRE7AS03J20111129 If this rule gets changed, does anyone if the new...
What does the 3.5 Billion figure refer to in this advertisement? http://www.interactivebrokers.com/download/IB08-102.pdf
The comment below was posted by Interactive Brokers on the thread: "IB Margin Changes." The thread closed before I was able to reply....
This question from "IB Margin Changes" was never answered. IBsoft alluded to the potential for Price Improvement on behalf of customers' auto...
In the old thread, "IB Margin Changes", IB employee IBsoft was clarifying a few points regarding IB's automatic liquidation software. But the...
Unanswered question from the now-defunct thread: Should you close your IB accounts now?...
Note: 2 active threads that queried IB policies have been closed and have been redirected here. The offending threads that are now closed are...
Be careful with that anti-IB stuff, noob_trad3r, you might get this thread morphed away from all of us....
To be fair he was upset about the execution. Should he be over it already?
Someone wants to close down a few of the IB threads:...
Yet in the case of a bogus quote or market move causing a drop in the net liq, a liquidation in a PM account will not "automatically" result in a...
This one's ironic: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/download/IB08-102.pdf
The 10Q states the dollar value of the shares as 16 million as of September 30th. Has IB clarified when the 8 million shares referenced by the...
Does anyone know how many MF Global shares IB owned as of September 30th?
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