The IB / Timber Hill relationship does not bother me as well. Its the IB policies that result from it that I dont like. Do you understand?
Yeah, And 65-75% + of IB's profit over the last 5 years was from Timber Hill. To me thats a huge conflict of interest. I don't "trust" that IB...
Do You mean Timber hill making more money?
Even if you decide to use margin with IB (somthing I wouldn't recomend), don't ever ever use partfolio margin with IB. Margin is being...
Even if its a margin account, as long as you trade only long options & don't use the margin you are pretty safe.
Margin calls are as old as the market is, almost every longtime trader did had allready a margin call or got very close to it. How did you guys...
I think the liquidation issues and the conflict of interest that Timber Hill might be profiting of these liquidations is 10 times more important...
10 minute warning? Where did you got this info from? based on my info. its 60 seconds or less.
Its obvios that IB people want people to know as little as possible re their liquidation policies. Questions about their liquidation rules are...
And perhaps they shoudl give you a choice of a "smart without TH" so if someone dosent want to deal with TH they should have the choice as well....
Come on Def, somthing is wrong with you, you allways seems to get things in just the opposite way. No one has a problem if you give clients a...
Most of these companies will do anything technically allowed by the law, and will lobby to change the laws, so they can make some more money for...
10. If margin requirements are increased, by IB or otherwise, and there is insufficient equity in Customer's account (s) to meet such increased...
From IB's agreement regarding order routing.. Affiliate Relationships: IB's affiliate Timber Hill LLC makes markets in stocks and acts as a...
I would have thought based on your serial defending IB, that you probably trade with them in the Billions. Now I find out that you hate IB because...
Yeah.... that's a good one. However they want be able to cover it from 1 liquidation of a spread, but from thousands of liquidation that's...
The other option you have is to use IB, but never use margin with them. Then you have the best of both worlds..
Is IBG LLC also buying positions that a are being autoliquidated for distressed prices by IB LLC clients? is there a c conflict of interest in...
Its the other way around. IB is a market maker, they also have a brokerage division.. (around 65-75% of their profit over the last 5 years where...
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