I'd like to close the loop by explaining the source of my misunderstanding, in case someone else has the same issue: I was confusing cash with...
Thanks, I'll do that, the confusion is also due to the fact that my cash amount did go down the full 40k (not just 10k as you said), but then I...
I think I may be misunderstanding something. I thought that to keep the maintenance margin I had to actually have the unused cash balance in my...
One thing that bothers me though, is I invest 40k of cash into some position, now I have a margin maintenance of 10k in my account, which means I...
Thanks, that was very helpful.
So, this all happened 2 days ago, meanwhile I deposited another 50k but the margin has not gone back to 0. I will wait a few more days and see...
I have a question about why I have an initial and maintenance numbers on my IB account. Here's what I did 1) Converted 10k EUROS to USD using...
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