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Ok, it was just spaculation on my part (I want to see their 3 quarter results, if market making will beat brokerage for the quarter, if yes it will be a red flag in my eyes). The other option is that these people are just STUPID and have no clue about their costumers concerns, they could have...

Good point

Hello, 50% of their profits in 2010 was from market making, in 2008 it was 70%.. That's some big numbers, and half of the the profit of the whole company.

Wrong

Mabye (just mabye) the profit of autoliquidation is more then the $1 & 70¢ comissions they will be making for the next year?? have you seen prices when you get liquidated, rock bottom prices. I know if I could buy at this prices I could possibly make a 5% instant return on these position.

Would that be ilegal for IB? If not, why not do it? lol By the way I didn't accuse anyone, it was you who said that it must somehow be a good business decission for IB to make these sudden margin changes, so I threw out an idea that mabye its indeed a "good business dicission". I'm sure Timbar...

TRUST in a great company?? remember enron? lehman? tyco? worldcom? and lately goldman ? It seems that the adittude in corperate americe today is to do "anything" that could make these CEO's richer no matter if its ethical or not. (especially if its technically legal)

Any thoughts here?

Diaper, port, poops? What's the relevance here?

So what happens if those people decide that they would not accept anything less then 1B, or any financial stock, or ony europeen stock, and you get a 2 day notice on that?? Do you feel comfertable that your positions not next in the row be put off margin??

Let me throw out some wild speculation here. Is it possible that mabye..mabye IB knows how to run their business, and are actually profiting when Timbar hill consistanly buying positions for rock bottom prices when accounts get autoliquidate?? and so mabye IB has a vested interast to have a...

Agree with that IB is not made to use with margin, however chnaging rules quickly with little notice is not appropriate, neither making your money safer.

Agree 100%. Would the IB micro cap rule "adjusted for all the shares that are private and part of the partnership" when they calculate if a stock is a micro cap? Also how about small etf's can they use margin?

On a side note, lest time I checked IB's market cap, it was around 650M, not much higher then the 250M micro cap limit (charles schwab market cap for ex is 16 Billion). If small marker cap means highest risk, is your money safe at IB??

Its the approach that's really troubling, I'm sure Friday will be a very busy day for the autoliquidation system for people that didn't had a chance to close positions or haven't realized there is a major change. While other brokerges go the extre mile to try avoiding liquidtation IB is almost...

No big deal if that's the rule to begin with, its quite big of a deal if its getting changed in middle of the game. Hey, you never know when the the margin rules on "your" positions will change..

Making such a major change out of the blue & only giving time till Friday?? Again IB "picking up nickels in frunt of a bulldozer" if you use margin overnighth. ONLY USE IB IF YOU TRADE ON CASH OR IF YOU ARE DAY TRADING, if not get yourself another broker and yes, pay double the nickels you...

Last month I have posted a rating on IB here. Since then there was 5 ratings on IB that seem to respond to my negative rating with positive ones, while not all of them relate to my rating some of the did mention it clearly. Since the broker rating colum is not a place to argue, debate, and hear...

Not correct from what I have seen. Ib portfolio margin offers more leverage then other broker, but the margin is extremely volatile (the margin requirment can go up by 30% overnight in some cases, without notice). Using PM with Ib increases the risk of autoliquidation even more.