Yes my account was up 400k, at its peak in April of 2019 so a very short time from when I entered in Oct of 18. My goal wasn't trying to ironclad...
My underlying wasn't nor did it need to be profitable. The hedge was more to address volatility as well as some way to come out on top if the...
I'm not sure if I made it clear with my initial description. The whole premise of what I am doing is largely to not have all my personal net worth...
From a unique situation due to my primary work being a landlord and an S-Corp business owner I have a tremendous amount of paper losses and the...
Yes I am aware of how to do that, but I mean specifically link an option to an underlying. So as if they were purchased together intially as a...
I sold some calls on positions I already own, is it possible in IB to manually group these together as buy-writes?
I assumed it must be some type of bot, the exactly 234 seconds over and over again seemed too odd. Is there a specific defensive strategy I...
I have a position in bio tech I am selling off as a scale order. In general the stock is pretty low volume. I noticed that when I am the lowest...
It has taken some getting used to but your "cash figure" in a portfolio margin account is almost irrelevant. It is all about available funds....
This month IB made a change with their Margin calculations that resulted in a 20% jump in my initial margin vs what it was previously with no...
As a result of several large short SPX options spreads, I have about 800k USD in idle cash with Interactive Brokers. Due to my maintenance...
Should I accept and if they purchase at 11.65 I can buy the equivalent shares the next day at the sub 11.65 price? To cover my sold call,
This is the message from IB, it says guaranteed delivery. Cottage Holdco B.V. has offered to purchase up to 150,000,000 shares of Coty Inc. Class...
Why is the stock trading below the tender offer, coudn't I just buy shares right now at 11.22 and then sell them to JAB for 11.65?
I purchased a COTY buy/write at Jan 2020 8 strike price for 5.87 back in DEC. Obviously, the stock price has far exceeded that strike price for...
So you think they ding you for option spreads? It seems contrary to what they have on their website. Just for the life of me I can't get an answer...
This appears to be their exact calculation, I'm not sure how selling boxes fits into it. I would think that falls under a covered spread. I wish...
I've been trying to get a straight answer from IB. They initially told me that none of my stocks are being lent, because there is no interest. I...
From IB. I really just want a straight answer where i can see the calculation they are doing. If you are receiving Payments in Lieu of dividends...
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