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I have just started trading futures about 8 months ago. My strategy is very straight forward and I always start my trading with a specific view of the market and stick to my position. That is, I will average down when it goes against me and scale up if it goes accordingly. That being said, I...

Sorry for the bombardment of questions but this is really puzzling for a new IB user. I tried to place a tight butterly spread on SPX as per the picture shown. I'm supposed to receive USD500 (yellow circle) but if you look at margin impact, I'm only receiving USD50 (red circle). The...

Thanks for the information. Sorry if I gave the wrong information. Let me clarify this again. Does the trade come as a "package" or individually? If you placed an option strategy with 4 legs, and only 2 legs got filled until end of day, will IB cancel the entire order altogether? That means...

I just opened an account with ib for trading options only then did I read something interesting about the guarantee of option strategies. They will not guarantee the execution unless it is routed via smart. This means the option has to be marketable ie. at market price. So if u place the...