Recent content by mgcorrei

Interesting hippie... you should have done something about it. Interactive Brokers is a bunch of first class idiots. For example, looking at one of my portfolios they force liquidated I was holding credit spreads where my maximum loss would have been $8,380... I was only a little more than...

Thanks for the advice guys. I have no problem with IB's 50:1 leverage threshold. The problem i have is that it is not disclosed clearly and if it had been i would have never opened an account. Look at their website, clicking on trading>margin>options. There is nothing here indicating a 50:1...

Man i feel you pain. I had a horrible experience with Interactive Brokers. I was trading an option strategy called a credit spread. If your familiar with these you know your maximum loss is limited to the distance between your strike prices and thats what you put down into margin. The margin...