The small guy, well, smaller guy, doesn’t always lose these cases. He had a portfolio margin account with lots of options. Sounds like he met...
IRS whistleblower says senior IRS officials and Congress were legally allowed to trade on inside info (per their own ruling!), and lower level...
Anyone know the real scoop here? speculation welcome. It reads like some mini-Bill Gross got suspended for insufficient paperwork and the firm...
I know lots of people around here seem to like hating on IB's customer service. Perhaps that was more justified many years ago, but I thought I'd...
Effective May 1st, US stock orders will have their commissions capped at 1% of the trade value, rather than the previous 0.5%. This effectively...
i recent sold some calls that expired exactly at the money and ended up getting fully assigned on them, which I am told is unusual when there is...
If you haven't noticed, IB updated the default stable TWS to 963.3a as of this weekend, which caused things to look and act slightly differently....
There's an easy way to save a cool $50-100M when you're a billionaire in the top tax bracket in Connecticut - move. Florida, with no income or...
For my portfolio margin account at IB, today my initial margin (but not maintenance margin) was much higher than it had been yesterday with no...
Do you use or know of a broker that offers decent margin requirements for Canadian equities? I use IB as a US individual and I'm told that for...
Anyone trade these? I'm looking for broker suggestions. Thank you....
Anyone know what the process is for getting options listed on a new IPO? SHAK is a billion dollar company trading several million dollars of...
Pending EU approval, caps on large outbound cash transfers and a proposed 0.1% tax on all withdrawals (ATMs, wires, etc)....
Hedge fund customer took them to arbitration seeking $1-3M in damages for their auto-liquidation. At issue was closing transactions executed at...
Lots of leveraged FX speculators getting wiped out, and this was the excess loss that will fall on IB if they don't recover from the individuals...
Would it be too much to ask to have a setting so we could view it the old way?
I recall someone here mentioning that it was possible to have a relationship with the prop side of IB rather than the retail side, and that for...
I am interested to hear if anyone has noticed significant differences in margin treatment at various brokers. As an example, one stock I was...
Not much has changed since 2009 when two high profile SEC lawyers were caught red handed trading against SEC policy:...
I do a lot of trading in my main taxable IB account. Several of my intraday strategies are reliable and proven enough (and largely long only),...
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