Absolutely not. Who is your broker? Not Interactive Brokers?
Big banks gets "fat finger" bust protection? Who else gets it?
A non-margin IRA account can go negative as a result of these busting trades! Does the fine prints protects the exchanges to be arbitrary...
jimrockford, I dispute your nightmare scenerio: Being assigned the short leg of an option near the low is not a problem if the long leg of the...
Tax idiots are running beautiful California. Car registration fee went up. All kind of new fees for everything. They want a disposal fee for a...
Why are u so mean to a person is kind enough to warn about what some brokers may do. I closed my IB margin account and move to Thinkorswim partly...
IB allows naked puts in a cash account if you have enough cash to cover it all in case the option is exercise. In a cash account, You cannot...
His shorts puts were definitely not naked. However, IB dumb bots treated them as if they were naked and ignored his long puts. It seems IB is...
Even if the trader has other positions, the bots should only closed those other positions. It makes no sense at all to close his winning spreads....
IB liquidation bots had no understanding of option spreads some years ago. It is really bad that it still has not fixed it. If those who...
Even if his puts is not perfectly matched, IB could just closed the missed match short calls. No reason the liquidate everything. IB...
Stops are not guarantee. Neither is your daily max daily loss limit that you arrange with your futures blocker. In a fast market, it gets blow...
Please read his very first message. They were were exact match vertical debit put spreads
You were not busted - there was no way your hedged debit put spreads incur any margin violation that was not there before. In fact, your put...
Why do there pick 60% arbitrary? why not 50% or 40%?
Institutions with these black boxes have too much clout on the exchanges.
Here is the CNN link: http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/05/smallbusiness/1099_health_care_tax_change/?hpt=C2
Thinkorswim low of day was 1066.5 Interactive Brokers low of day was 1056 Both were for the same June 2010 Contract. I am not sure I trust...
Even IB would have to take care of what is so obviously their mistake.
What Platform you were using? My TOS has the Low of Day as 1066.5 for ES while my IB gives me a readign of 1056 More than 10 points...
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