Recent content by Dividends4Life

Thanks for the help, that clears it up. Appreciate everything you did. Do you ever notice the PM changes if they occur though, I guess only concern is then whether or not requirements could change from 30% to lets say 40% overnight. That would be a nightmare.

Ok cool, I plan on mostly buying preferreds. So here is a list of 10 random ones. DFS PRB UBP PRF CBL PRE RF PRA RSO PRB MITT PRB AMTG PRA ELC PRC NLY PRD HTS PRA Really appreciate the help. Thanks.

Thanks for the PDF, but it doesn't really help much since I have no plans to trade options on PM. I just want to be long equities.

Traveler, I understand that, but what would my minimum be. I probably wouldnt be entitled to the 15% margin requirement.

No i dont want to use options and the only reason I need leverage is for dividend stocks/preferreds. If I was able to maintain 3:1 at the least without IB increasing it, I would be fine with that.

Do you know where it shows me what the minimum requirement would be? I made my portfolio in the demo but it didnt give me a percentage in the account window.

Yea Im going to try out the demo and see what they say. Like I said, 3:1 is enough for me. If I am mostly invested with leverage, I am just worried IB would change the requirements to 2:1 or something of that nature. So it makes it difficult to hold dividend stocks on leverage if requirements...

Yea but if im getting PM, I need greater leverage than Reg T, I wouldn't mind if I can get 3:1, but I want to have that and just look away. I don't want to worry about IB changing requirements to 2:1 when I have 3:1 leverage on a dividend portfolio.

Yea it seems pretty complex, I think I will just stick to Reg T. I am fine with 50% margin.

Yea i opened the demo, but there were no instructions on how to find out what the margin requirement would be for me.

You mean PM has 15% minimum? And yea, i understand it changes based on risk, but I am hoping to diversify alot with dividend stocks and preferreds, but its annoying that I would have to keep checking it everyday to see what the margin updates are. I am hoping to have my portfolio always...

I had a couple questions about PM for IB. I currently have Reg T, but plan to switch over to PM. Reg T follows the general guidelines with 50% on margin, but I want to increase my leverage. I heard with PM I can leverage to 5x. I currently have a portfolio of 30+ preferred stocks and would like...