The stock-lender gets to collect interest on the cash collateral, in addition to the interest you pay them to borrow their stock. So in a high...
I am concerned that IBKR's excess SIPC insurance with Lloyds only covers 150M aggregate, but they have 128B of user funds as of their last annual...
1 month t-bill rate got 80bps below the fed funds rate, not because of expectation of a sudden huge drop in rates, but because there wasn't enough...
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I hate it on IBKR when I get forced to cover a short due to my locate being arbitrarily recalled intraday. This happened on SATX recently. I...
how do you get permissions to trade CME forex futures on IBKR?
I've been using box spreads for financing for a few years to get even lower rates than IBKR's margin. But why can't we directly trade financing...
I think there is a very high probability of a debt restructuring deal where the offshore senior unsecured bondholders get >66% of face value. Buy...
1. What the hell happened in 1990? Yield curves were pretty flat before that, and much less flat after that. 2. Anyone buying 30-year...
Is there some market data subscription I need to be able to chart bond prices more than 6 months back?
on TWS the price charts for bonds only go 6 months back. Is there any workaround?
If I've already shorted a stock, without pre-borrow, is there any way to cover without returning the shares so I can short the same shares again...
I suppose I could generate the activity log for the trailing 365 days (it won't go longer than that) and then match it up with my current...
can I get real time alerts whenever GBTC's discount to nav exceeds 20%? Ycharts seems to only do end of day for that. I saw GBTC's discount to...
US public debt is still exploding, but the portion of it held by foreigners is flat. The continued financial stability of the US depends upon a...
IB has all the info they need to automatically calculate my cost basis for noncovered securities, same as for covered securities. Why not go...
Is there any way to write a bit of code that scrapes a website, calculates a ratio, and then displays that in a column of TWS?
[ATTACH]\ TWS is showing a bid higher than the ask on GBTC. Also another time when I entered a bid equal to the ask on CCX warrants, I didn't get...
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$200/day * 22 business days/month / 110mbf = $40/mbf/month But may is $120 cheaper than march so you buy the may futures, short the march futures,...
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