another story on liquidation of $500k Box spread for short of $2k intraday shortage, with respond from an IB rep pointing to Box spread's inherent...
IBKR Margin requirement for shorting the box <MAX (1.02 x cost to close, Long Call Strike - Short Call Strike)>. Cost to close = Amount of the...
It turned out that particular trader had margin problem, such a long winding thread...
i hate schwab since it cheated on my corp bond trades. I never go back to a cheating broker. their free trades are not really free.
Thanks for sharing your past experience. It is indeed quite dangerous to trade options with IBKR. An Algo is indeed just a computer program and it...
Excuse me for resurrecting this thread. It is important to set your box to be liquidated last in your setting in addition to setting up your...
It's important to set the boxes as last to be liquidated. Though this is not guaranteed by IB's auto-liquidation algorithm.
Having several bad experience with Schwab, I am not positive if Schwab would let you trade better on a box than with IBKR. More expensive is a...
Remember this? you asked exact same question last year....
for milking as much possible from its unaware customers: i.e. charging 7-8% margin interest rate at 0% cost of funds, and other trade...
First, you need to convert your IBKR account to Portfolio Margin. You need to put much more than the minimum $100K equity requirement. On IBKR...
Box Spreads work well in IBKR. Robinhood banned it. Selling Box Spreads on Eurostoxx50 even pays you to borrow Euro.
0% margin rates for the first Euro50k/USD50k/GBP50k till Jun 30, 2022 at Swissquote https://en.swissquote.lu/pricing/interest-margin-rates...
Does rehypothecation of which country's shares depend on the currency being borrowed? i.e. 'GBP margin loan results in UK shares hypothecation'...
Thanks for the revelation. I found Box Spread Financing article on reddit. One can do an FX spot and 1-year swap to fund Euro purchases cheaper...
Latest USD Libor rates. https://www.global-rates.com/en/interest-rates/libor/libor.aspx As of 5/28/21 Overnight USD cost of funds : 0.06113% 1...
TradeStation Global in UK which runs on IBKR platform suits best your needs. Using European brokers to trade US stocks is like throwing your...
So far only IBKR provides the best margin loan interest rate among online brokers i.e. with a spread of 1.5% over the cost of fund. i.e. for USD...
F&F regulation of 15 clients and max $25millions are applicable in most jurisdictions outside the USA. Inside USA most states put a cap of 5...
Really, you don't have to worry putting all your $3millions in one brokerage as your non-margined assets are fully segregated, away from...
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