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I’m going to kind of answer my own question – “I would love to see the exact calculation they are using – which of course they don’t provide.” The dollar value of the calculated maximum loss is identical to my -30% underlying move projected loss under yesterday’s stress test...

Interestingly enough, and just as unfortunate, I read this thread a few days ago and had absolutely no knowledge this calculation and corresponding fee existed. To my surprise, very early this morning I got a message from IB about the “Notice of Exposure Fee” with regards to my positions...

Hey Tony, I have the bad tick on my chart, I don’t know if it derived from the SGX or IB, but certainly anyone at IB will have that too. However; Since those options on futures trade and are valued against the future, when I need to review the chart I just refer back to the future...

I used to trade the KOSPI 200 index options (K200) until late last year when IB made a clearing change and took away trading privileges for those and all overseas index options in Canadian-based accounts – horrible change but they had some reason to do it, never explained to me though. I...

I just received notice from IB Canada; the conversion will take place this Saturday, October 12th. That means all noticeable changes, be it margin treatment and product availability (if changing at all) will be noticeable Sunday evening.

Not yet, I remember them saying it would change your account ID (not your login) so that’s what I’ve been keeping an eye on. My best guess is it happens over one of the next two weekends in September, just seems logical in terms of making a big transition like this.

Perhaps one of the IB representatives on the board can answer this; Will this change, either immediately or shortly after revert the restriction set over the past couple months on foreign (I know for sure K200 and N225) index options, essentially taking away trading privileges for IB Canada...