IB charges 0.25% for trading bonds, which is prohibitively expensive when you just wanna flip them for a few percent more. What other brokers offer lower fees on bonds and reasonable margin requirements / margin rates?
well, that´s a bit short for information, for how much did u buy and how much did IB charge U in commission ? maybe post that part of the activity statement so we can have a look, including the commish. I´ve bought a bunch of corporate bonds through IB in 2019, usually for 100k each, and commissions were on par with what is advertised in the screenshot above, or link below https://www1.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1590&p=bonds
But in the actual transaction history it looks like they charged considerably more than 0.025%. It's like 0.05%-0.2%