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Dear xxxx, This is a portfolio margin account and the margin requirements can and will change depending on the changes to the risk of holding the positions in the account. IBKR receives new margin requirements from the OCC every evening. Do you have a specific questions about a date or margin...

Doesnt work when they increase margin requirement on the fly.

I just unwinded some of the positions on the account. Apparently 50k face value short calls (hedged with way out of money short puts) used about 100k margin (think this tripled in the last few days), and 2.6m worth of other hedged positions used 100k margin.

I'm currently having have issue with IB, I have 200k in the account with portfolio margin. My portfolio consists of options and stocks, highly leveraged but almost fully hedged regardless of market movements. Problem is similar to the OP, at 20:00 EST, I have around 50k execess liquidity, 4...