You gotta be kidding me. If what you say is true, would you want to trust your hard-earned money with these slow firms? BTW WTI is CL. Man, do most of you even trade the crude oil futures? If not, STFU.
People don't call crude the widow maker, for nothing. I learned my lesson trading crude, as a newbie, three years ago. I still have nightmares about my losses. 30% of my account vanished in 15 minutes, and that was with a crude calendar spread.
WTI contract trades on IPE/ICE CL on CME If you dont even know the difference maybe its you who should STFU Do YOU even trade crude oil futures?
please don't use that as an excuse to increase margin requirement. for goodness sake, reduce margin requirement immediately. we disciplined traders don't over trade.
IB seem to have lost faith in their 'auto liquidator' Seems they can no longer accurately track client risk in real time throughout the day So they resort to increasing intraday margin to compensate.
Margins should not change due to a measure of an instrument's liquidity. It should change based on it's crazy-ass volatility. Or lack there-of, in the case of margins going down, heh.