Maintaining your current high intraday margins is indefensible. And I doubt you'll ever lower them, quite frankly.
I agree there are many styles. Personally, I suggest you become a specialist in a very few items you trade for a living, and do not "scan...
Well, my only observation is that single contract trading is a very weak method. At least allow yourself to use 2 contracts, and "stagger" or...
IB is protecting itself from your potentially irresponsible behavior; now don't you feel guilty? :) FS Get the message? IB doesn't want...
If you number Market Depth tiers from 0 (inside) outwards as 1,2,3,4... Persistent price trend is usually driven by ratios of cumulative volumes...
The real reason that price follows aggregate book volume is that Market Makers place volume on the side of the book before they move price in that...
Buzz, you are correct. How did you know that ? :) FS
The reason I trade with IB is the high performance API to TWS. It may require high tech programming skills to use, but when it works it's the...
It's time the "voices of reason" spoke up against this IB margin scam. In truth, they want to discourage daytraders; that's their likely agenda....
I got a client query about using IB's TWS and medium-speed daytrading front-end on a Satellite link. Having no experience with Sat myself, are...
I can't help but be sympathetic, because many of us have been where you are at one time in our careers. I suggest you pause trading, and mend...
It's not just the size on the book, but you want to see a trade at the ASK which is substantial, *corresponding* roughly to that advertised size....
Well, there's lots of ways to trade. In my case, it's frequent daytrading or scalping of futures contracts. If I did not have the Market Depth...
I was talking about a retail buyer never showing up on the ASK because he buys the ask from someone selling at the inside ASK, and these are...
No, the Market Depth is very important in ES. Size on the inside and mid-distance bid or ask clues you into where MM's will be moving price. If...
OldTrader, Of course I think you've spoken wisely, and all we ( I ) am asking of IB is to be "reasonable" in their intraday margin hikes, and...
My god, I just realized he may be right !!! I didn't realize how much "at risk" Interactive Brokers and similar companies have been ALL THESE...
By far, the most important thing for daytraders or scalpers to understand is that they should consistently use "position scaling" to manage...
Huh? Isn't that giving IB more credit than it's poorly managed intraday margin nuking maneuver really merits? After all, don't you think $3500...
Thanks. I couldn't have stated it more clearly ! :) FS
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