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Obviously the OP is lying and laughing right now. Numbers make no sense, max drawdown of 2% gives it away. Just ridiculous.

I'm confused as to why people are saying IB should increase margin requirements. Margin requirements at IB are ridiculously high. Why should the non-spewtards be restricted from trading because the spewtards who have no understanding of risk management whatsoever, hate themselves, and want to...

IB drives me nuts. Is there not a checkbox at the bottom of that message to never get it again? Do you ever get the popup from when you click buy or sell and then choose to look at a different instrument? It says that you are navigating away from the screen and the order will reset. I can't...

Interactive brokers did not restrict, at least not yet. Not sure why with the margin requirements so high that they would. 8K long and 13K short margins at IB. Sorry for your situation, seems a bit off to me given how ridiculously high the margins are, but not all players practice good risk...

To OP, look at the nominal on your futures trade. Then look at how much money you have. You are trading on 50x leverage. If you are top 100 traders in the world, what probability would you give that you would not go break within a few days with that account size? Serious question, I want to know...

Did you have an outage from around 1:00 to 2:30? They said it happened to only some users, but I assume it happened to everyone. Thanks.

Hi. I've been thinking a lot recently about how selective I should be on trades. For example, say I feel a contract is a good buy and I don't want to miss out on the move higher, if my ideal entry was say 32 and I see it is trading at 32.1, I'll buy sometimes at market and sometimes I put the...

Ameritrade ToS and Mobile is completely offline! Electrical outage? Been on the phone for 30 minutes, obviously nobody answering. Shorting oil futures contract right before everything went offline. Not sure the contract went through, as you can't see on their website. It looked like my funds...

If the OP is real, I think he needs to research contango. I don't know why you would ever hold oil futures for several months. You'll get absolutely killed by contango, especially in this environment. I don't get whats so bad with trading oil contracts 6 months out, personally, although maybe a...

Thank you both for the information! Is there a reason the liquidity has dried up so much over the years? Thanks.

I've worked very hard to have my futures commissions lowered at Ameritrade. They don't lower it by much and even with 1000+ contracts last month, my commissions are quite high, even for non micros. I moved to IB. So much cheaper and the fills are much, much better. I think ToS is much better...

Wow, this is incredibly helpful! Thanks so much, really appreciate it!

Could someone help me understand why the Bid/Ask spread on /PL has increased so much since the drop to ~700. A few months back when /PL was around 1100, I believe the spread was a few ticks. Now, the spread is significantly more. Given it has decreased in price, and therefore each tick is...