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I'm having the same issue with both TWS and the iPhone app. I couldn't find a way to disable it either.

Strongly suggest you revisit whatever you're planning on doing as you obviously don't know about these markets. Fx is generally a more important consideration than commission and is 150-200bps, and there are other unusual fees. Boom is the best choice in general for non IBKR markets.

I believe you'd get the behavior you expect and lower margin requirements if you switch your account to Reg T from PM. The answer IBKR didn't give you as explicitly as they should have is that it is IBKR's intention to prevent you from holding these positions despite your correct assertion that...

IBRK does margin calls when there's nothing to liquidate immediately, e.g. due to a closing print or margin parameters update after hours.

Account statements are correct. Anything complex screws up TWS - shares acquired through options, return of capital, wash sales, trading in and out of a security, etc.

This will be a Delaware, Wyoming, or Nevada LLC for US citizen members. My primary motivation is to open an account at a broker that doesn't deal with individuals. This isn't a fund or regulated entity and no compensation is being paid to anyone. To be clear, the tax I'm looking to defer is...

I'm planning on moving my trading into an LLC. I'd ideally create a multi-member LLC for all my family's assets to simplify management and be more fee efficient. The problem is that many of the assets have embedded capital gains and this might cause tax to become due if they were contributed to...

It shouldn't be possible except under unusual circumstances if that's your only use of margin. Your screenshots aren't conclusive though as they could be loaning your shares out against non-GBP margin balances and I think possibly if you're using then as collateral for short options positions...

Don't take any information about IB margin as universal. It can vary depending on where your account is booked for some products. CLF front month is interesting, presumably they don't want you to trade that due to physical delivery.

The conflict was with market participants in general, not from trading against IBKR flow, so the implication of what you said about Timber Hill's closure is wrong. Peterffy has always been an outspoken critic of payment for order flow, probably to the detriment of his net worth, and he wasn't...

Def, this is my experience as well trading less liquid instruments, especially options. I'll place a limit order inside the bid/ask and get an order being held and monitored message, presumably because IBKR considers it too far away from the market despite being inside NBBO. This behavior leads...

The per share basis should have changed as you have observed (because the contract multiplier changed). The per contract basis should be unchanged. This is the same idea as your per share basis changing after a split.

In addition to the strike price adjustment, the number of shares deliverable per contract was increased to 140.1188 from 100. This changed your per share basis. Manage your risk accordingly.

The margin increase is really just from what they define as your third riskiest position if you're in concentration margin mode but it can be very substantial, and it only really matters if it puts your concentration margin near or above initial margin limits as you can trade anything but your...

Fitting conclusion to the saga. Headline is guilty but result is no jail time and accounts unfrozen. Some would consider it a win.

An OTCBB dark stock changed my financial life so I'm sentimental. Ran across a company trading at ~1x FCF and bought as much as I could. >10x return when it was acquired and doubled my capital base.

Margin gets tightened up or becomes completely unavailable at market bottoms, especially for illiquid stuff. Implication is that you could be forced to liquidate your stocks at the worst possible unless your leverage is very low. Don't underestimate your risk here. Apocryphal story is there was...

Large brokers have collectively decided they're supposed to do AML checking on any OTCBB transfer in after the IBKR fine. That's a manual process that costs serious money and is annoying for all parties so easier to just disallow the transaction. Some smaller brokers haven't got the memo yet...

The account was never frozen, just the instrument. I don't remember the exact timing as it didn't affect my trading but remember being bemused because I could still trade the instrument in other accounts I control at IBKR.

Kind of. Compliance notices and may prevent you from dealing while they do due diligence, which involves asking if you're an insider and presumably some other stuff they don't tell you about. Penalty box can last several days and only applies to buying/selling the particular issue, not the...