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I don't know the future. My opinion is pure speculation, and trading is speculation.

Not completely true. No other creditors can touch your house (if the house has been filed as your primary residence) when you bankrupt. But if you can't pay your mortgage, your mortgage lender (and only your mortgage lender) will take your house.

They can't go after your other assets.

Yes, good news. With declining assets, IB stock will go down. Time to short IB. If span is not safe enough, does it mean that CME is very risky. LOL.

Yes. I came from HK.

According to the last info i requested, you can't open online, but you can manage it online. You have to go to HK to open the account (for HKSB only, not quite sure about other banks).

It is ok if you have bought it. The rule applies only to new purchase.

I believe the limit was a lot higher than 2K. Did they recently change the limit?

Early this year, the rule changed. Foreigners are allowed to buy only one property now.

You need to report your non-US accounts and pay your tax when you file your US tax return.

You can open accounts in HK without HKID. Just need to go there and open your account with your passport. There is no limit for fund transfer in HK.

is it most sensitive to movement too?

IB will increase the weighting factor by 1% everyday till it reaches 25%. No points of trading future options anymore.

It was 12.5% yesterday, and will go up to 25%. It is a 100% increase in margin. After this change, will pm provide a higher leverage?

Thanks. It is good to know. So the weighting factor will increase to 20% and stop, right?

If you are doing it gradually with a plan, why can't you give us the schedule how you will change the weighting factor in the future? Do you have a plan? We need the schedule so we can monitor our leverage properly.

They will do it at or close to expiration so you have to buy when IV is high (or they can sell when IV is high). They are going to increase the weighting factor again 3 pm today. Be careful. Long IB stock now. They know how to make market without taking any risk.

They are going to increase another 50% in the future.

The spot moved against my put, and IV dropped with spot going up. The weighting factor was increased and it caused the liquidation. There was no notice about the change in weighting factor till 3 pm. IB should inform the clients at least one day ahead if it is a planned strategy to reduce...

Probably 20% margin increase since yesterday's morning. I checked my margin yesterday at around noon time. My margin (even the lookahead market) was fine, and the market went up meaning my naked put is a lot safer and so I didn't check after 2 pm. After the market closed, I checked the email...