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I don't have problem with liquidations if they are legit. To be fair on IB, their liquidating prices are not that bad. The problem is a lot of liquidations are obviously wrong. After they are contacted, they take long time to process it. During that time, if it's in their favor, they bust them...

Actually this would not happen at all if there were not wrong liquidations the previous day. I had ES Sept 1150P/1100P bear spreads and ES Sept 1150P/Aug 1100P calender spreads and some other positions. There were a brief bid and ask outage for Sept 1150P. At the time my Sept 1150P should be...

On Friday 8/19/2011, Interactivebrokers liquidated my 5 positions. The reason was I didn't have enough cash to cover option assignments. I reviewed my account statements the following Sunday and found 1 account didn't have enough cash and 2 liquidations are valid. But the other 2 accounts had...