Interactive Brokers Margin account. Equity Trading 4 X Gearing

Discussion in 'Retail Brokers' started by Signate67, Jan 24, 2019.

  1. traider

    traider

    Can we trade single stock futures for AAPL if we wanted to YOLO really badly?
     
    #11     Jan 25, 2019
  2. They just reduce it, in the least abrasive way possible (according to them) until the account is margin compliant.
     
    #12     Jan 25, 2019
  3. destriero

    destriero

    No, just enough to keep you off call.
     
    #13     Jan 25, 2019
  4. @digitalnomad and @destriero thank you for your reply. I was of the same opinion as you. Which is why I was surprised to see the reply that IB would close the position.
     
    #14     Jan 25, 2019