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Most people don't know that despite 20 years of investment in renewable energy, its contribution to total energy consumption is just 2%. Even in the USA we are heavily relying on coal at about 50%. It's laughable to claim EV been clean, let alone carbon free. Yes maybe in countries like France...

Would not invest in EV as it's essentially a global fraud. Zero benefit for climate change. More carbon emission than gas in most part of the world.

If truly risk-free, a profit can be leveraged to any arbitrarily high level without the risk of bankruptcy, so the return appears to be a matter of choice. In reality however, the rate of return is limited by the gross margin set by the brokerage, which effectively caps this type arbitrages to...

Practically, what kind of annualized returns can you achieve with a box spreads, if you can capture them?

What's the maximum GMV/Equity allowed at Wedbush?

Then that's the same as IB's GPV.

is your Equity pretty close to NLV? and how GMV is calculated?

Thanks Robert. This is very informative. Does this rule generally apply to institutional investors too?

Interactive Brokers apparently has a leverage cap based on a "Securities Gross Position Value" to net liquidation value ratio < 30, stated as follows: Securities Gross Position Value <= 30 * (Net Liquidation Value - Futures Options Value) https://www.interactivebrokers.eu/de/index.php?f=24862...