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Hence why this needs to be full service. Figure some sort of legal contact would be made.

/This is a sibling post to another recent posting - this particular question got lost. I have a bunch of shares locked up in another holding service for the next few months that I'd like to hedge (with collars) Unfortunately, no discount broker I've chatted with will consider equity held...

Pretty sure we were talking reg-T, given the discussion on "100% of the option market value plus 15% of the underlying price for Broad Based Indexes or 20% for Equities and Narrow Based Indexes."

Sorry, let me rephrase that. They stated that they won't raise past 20% due to individual portfolio risk (i.e. concentrating one's portfolio too heavily in a position). They certainly might change the 20% for the individual stock. To translate: All traders of (derivatives of) a given stock...

Thanks all! Fidelity actually has higher baseline margin numbers (https://www.fidelity.com/trading/faqs-margin). I called them and they couldn't tell me what my margin requirement would be in a portfolio that is highly waited as mine with naked calls on a single stock, which lowered my...

I'm attempting to write call options against shares I have that are locked up in another holding service. Thus far, I've been writing naked calls on margin. Many brokers (Schwab, IB) have a margin requirement of option_value+max(20%*stock_value - out_of_money_amount, 10%*stock_value) I...