They are fine . My max loss is 16k on the combo. I only left 10k of excess liquidity in the account. Would portfolio margin vs regular T make any difference ?
on the debit spreads margin overcharging! sharp observation, now I remember that last week I couldn't open an AMZN debit spread just because I didn't have the avail margin and my math was telling me I did. I have a second nationality that TD does accept, i'll be moving faster to get my new passport to try ToS.
That's a great question sadly i'm not able to anwser, I'm using Regular T since opening and haven't done the proper research on the pros and cons to migrate to portfolio, my decision making is probably always easier as i'm not liable any taxes in the US but I have that research pending for sure.
Fascinating how those who don't understand options, blame the broker when playing with real money. Use a paper account until you actually know what you're doing.
TDA as a BD is awesome. I had one issue where a bug in the front end forced them to trade 100 micro NQ at the market in the account. I was logged off at the time. I don't trade micros; they weren't on any of my watchlists. Small loss of $1,200 which they refused to cover, offering me $150 which didn't cover the comms. I wired out due to that and they offered me $2,000 for wiring n-figure into a new account. So they wouldn't accept liability but made it right anyway. I run TDA on a 18-core 2020 Xeon iMac Pro and it's great until the end of the day and it becomes sluggish with their cache. I also have a 12-core Mac Pro at another location and it seems to run better. It's a huge memory hog. Max the settings at login and restart the app mid-day to dump the cache.
Who is blaming the broker ? I only said their software shouldn't call something a short strangle when it's not