Interesting data point. Were you short options exclusively? Was your portfolio diversified among your options? I don't know what exactly you...
For the sake of continuation, my margin jumped from $100k to $250k, a 150% increase, and I was forced to liquidate some of my positions at...
My wife put on her conspiracy theory hat and suggested that maybe IB intentionally whipsaws accounts with portfolio margin to earn more...
Mark, The margin values that I am comparing are during the day and the morning of the next day. For example, after making a few trades...
Could be. I am in the process of speaking with the Portfolio Margin personnel at ToS and will report with what they have to say. Ideally, I would...
Mark, I understand what you mean. But you know that something is grossly wrong when your margin increases with the market moving in your favor...
Margin last night (up to 2:30am EST) $105k. Margin this morning $51k. Net change >50%. I need a radical change in either my portfolio or my broker.
What time is the overtime margin report calculated and available? I will pay attention tomorrow to it and report.
Mark, Hmm, interesting example. Just goes to show the inefficiencies with even the most popular brokerages. Out of curiosity, would IB allow...
The trade price, although part of a spread trade, does show for the last price, which does skew the bid/ask for that particular strike price.
And that's my biggest complaint about IB Portfolio Margin. When making the trade, the margin requirement is low. I wake up next day to horror with...
There were couple of times when the market gapped up, the volatility was down the previous day and on the day in question, and yet my margin...
I trade options with Interactive Brokers and been seeing some strange execution behavior. Can someone with more knowledge and experience explain...
I have read through many posts here and other places and still do not have a definite idea of the best broker for portfolio margin for options...
For the last couple of days, all of these trades have closed at the stop loss. These were also flat market days. My setup is to trade in either...
Hi Emintrader, Thanks for this wonderful system. Keep posting those L5 values. I have a couple of question: 1. Can the stop loss be...
Hi NTW, Thanks for this wonderful post. I have liked it so much that I have read the starting 50 pages several times over to really understand...
True, conservative investors may intend to minimize their risk and consequently the yield. This tool does not promote risky trades if that was...
You are taking my comment out of context to rationalize your conclusion that "maximizing the yield should not be the objective". :confused:...
I agree with your point although not your conclusions. This tool may be dangerous for the naive. For example, a slightly OTM put option would have...
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