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Does IBKR restrict margin on stocks with low trading volume and/or tiny market caps? Because if I open a position in Apple in my paper trading account I got 2x leverage overnight but when I buy for example Mammoth Energy Services Inc (TUSK) it says under 'Buy pwr' that I have 4x leverage until...

Thank you Varijotas for trying to help and I looked it up but it said nowhere in that menu what the margin requirements were for all my positions. The only tabs that were there are changes in maintenance and initial margin. But not maintenance and initial margin required for a individual stock...

Overnight didn’t help. Even several overnights not. And yes recently I have sold some positions and bought some other but it didn’t help. Anytime I sold something my buying power went up something like 4 times the cash I got from selling but when I bought another stock it dropped with cash one...

Anyone else any ideas? :(

Thank you for the help angrytrader. But my portfolio consist only of 10 stocks and the 4 EUR/USD futures contracts which only have a margin maintenance of 1.500 eur, so this is still a mystery. And IBKR customer service doesn’t respond to my tickets and their chat is a hell. Great...

Thanks for the reply. I read that page. What part are you specifically referring to? Because everything I read on there confirms my case. Am I missing something?

Maintenance margin on my 4 M6E’s is only €1500. So I should be getting 61.000 in assets x 2 - 1500 = 120.500

Hi there, I hope you guys can help me with this one because I can’t figure it out. I recently upgraded my IBKR EUR cash account to a margin account. I currently have about 55.000 euro’s worth of US stocks, 6.000 euro’s worth of US dollars cash and I own 4 (long) M6E EUR/USD futures contracts...