Recent content by gescob3

Yes my account was up 400k, at its peak in April of 2019 so a very short time from when I entered in Oct of 18. My goal wasn't trying to ironclad protect that gain per say, but overall create a steady stream of around 100k/yr in capital gains. I have very complex tax returns, in short I have...

My underlying wasn't nor did it need to be profitable. The hedge was more to address volatility as well as some way to come out on top if the market tanked.

I'm not sure if I made it clear with my initial description. The whole premise of what I am doing is largely to not have all my personal net worth in one bucket Chicago RE. The secondary goal is to create long gains that I can take in at 0% tax value. Of everything I am doing I would say that...

From a unique situation due to my primary work being a landlord and an S-Corp business owner I have a tremendous amount of paper losses and the ability to drop down my AGI through aggressive elective retirement funding. In short, this creates an opportunity for me to bury long term capital gains...

Yes I am aware of how to do that, but I mean specifically link an option to an underlying. So as if they were purchased together intially as a combo order.

I sold some calls on positions I already own, is it possible in IB to manually group these together as buy-writes?

I assumed it must be some type of bot, the exactly 234 seconds over and over again seemed too odd. Is there a specific defensive strategy I should pursue when I encounter this? My order wasn't hidden

I have a position in bio tech I am selling off as a scale order. In general the stock is pretty low volume. I noticed that when I am the lowest seller (my sell order shows up), when there are no other orders for a while exactly a single one of my shares sells at my ask every 3 minutes and 54...

It has taken some getting used to but your "cash figure" in a portfolio margin account is almost irrelevant. It is all about available funds. For example, I could short sell 1 million dollars in stock and I would increase the cash balance in my account bu 1 million, but it doesn't mean that my...

This month IB made a change with their Margin calculations that resulted in a 20% jump in my initial margin vs what it was previously with no change in my positions. After contacting them I was told they switched from the initial margin just being 10% over the maintenance margin to that amount...

As a result of several large short SPX options spreads, I have about 800k USD in idle cash with Interactive Brokers. Due to my maintenance margin, my "available funds" falls very very short of this amount and I am looking for something to do with the "idle cash". Currently, I have the money...