Recent content by MikeinCanada

So again for any elitetraders or someone from IB, please tell me if ETF's that are lets say crashing to price near 2 or 3 dollars USD but highly liquid and give dividend, can just become No margin/100 margin and if this happened in 2008? And also what needs to happen for IB to do this like do...

Qaz thanks for your response but how is that the case, as per my eg above,if they were to increase my 2 ETFs to no margin, then that will liquidate me totally and wipe me out as per my understanding unless you can please explain. LEts say my Equity w Loan is 115k and Margin Maintenance is...

qaz exactly thank you, I think many people who do ETF investing are not prepared for this risk as highly unlikely as it is, that's why Im curious if IB has ever done anything like this, where they just change the liquid ETF margin to 100percent/no margin Also further imagine below that Eg ETF...

the puts are not the issue its 20k max loss, issue is more the 100k margin loan and if they increase the ETFs to non marginable all of a sudden, anyways can someone from IB or elitetrader trading with IB since 2008 financial crisis please answer the questions if they ever increased the margin on...

But the point is that this should not be a RISK for you or anyone, cause these are ETF's/index and they pay dividend too. I dont mind NORMAL margin calls where my ETF stocks still have 30percent margin, the only reason I even took margin is cause these are ETF's and WILL NOT GO TO 0 ever. They...

Hi I have been trading for few years and live in Canada which is governed by IIROC similar to FINRA and have bet quite big and took out 100k margin loan and sold a few naked PUT options with max loss at 20k so in total 140 k margin and currently my stocks/portfolio are 2 ETF's which are the weed...