Recent content by chroniclenyc

I have never done this myself, but the obvious benefit to me other than you don't tie up all of your capital is the asymmetrical payoffs for an ITM call option. What I mean is that a move upward in the underlying will result in the option gaining more than it would lose from a symmetry move...

From my understanding IB offers intraday margin of 25%, as in if you $25,000 you can buy up $100,000 worth of equities. However, when I was doing margin checks, the maintenance margin and initial margin appear to be the same. So, if you max out your margin at 4x, you will be liquidated with...