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1. As can be seen from my earlier posts about margins, I looked at IB's margins page just earlier this evening. 2. As for the other point, I'm not following you. All I have to do is prep the order, right-click, and select "Check Margin", right?

def, please don't send me any more PMs. Based on your posts directed to me, I knew I couldn't possibly benefit by reading it, so I didn't. If you have something to say, just say it in a public post. As for the subject line of your PM ("Agenda"): I think that most of the people who have...

Great! I looked on ET's site, but couldn't find the rates or min-cap for options. Also, what else can be traded? Non-U.S. securities? FX?

Chad, I'm looking for someplace that does exceptionally intelligent margining. If I want to spread SPX options against OEX or OEF, does your margining recognize that they're virtually equivalent risks?

Ne'mind. Pointless question; I'll just park an order at IB ten hours from now, and see what margin it wants for me to submit the order.

Uh, I thought I *was* calc'ing the intradays: from CME mins, to IB min o'nite, to IB 50% intraday. Where'd I go wrong? What do *you* think are the IB intradays for ES & NQ? Thanks.

Chad, what's the situation with PDT rules at ET?

have you tried asking the help-desk about this? what did they say? If you haven't tried, is there some reason for that?

what did IB say when you contacted them about it?

profitseer, is there any particular reason that you turn to this board for assistance in using IB? That's not sarcasm: I'm sincerely interested in knowing if it's just spur-of-the-moment, or do you generally prefer to ask in places other than IB's official email/chat help?

According to this CME page, maint is $2850 (ES) and $1800 (NQ). Per this IB page, minimum initial is 125% of maint, which would be $3562 (ES) and $2250 (NQ) -- and IB's 50% intraday rates would therefore be $1781 (ES) and $1125 (NQ). Compared to ECHO's $1000 (ES) and $750 (NQ), at least a...

to AlanM, who posted on IB's boards; responses in-line . . . "1a) In the chat, you are asking for the "$ balance after the transaction". Since the transaction wasn't possible, I wouldn't know how to answer that question either. Sorry, I don't follow what you mean by "transaction wasn't...

MikeB, Another interpretation of IB-Def's post just occured to me -- namely that, first thing Monday, IB is going to jump right on pressuring regulators to force O-X to apply PDT rules to options. Well, if it happens, we'll know the source -- another example of "IB's leadership in promoting...

what really bothers me is all these utes going around axe-ing questions about how to trade the markets:D eeeyyewwww, yeah, I forgot about "axe". Always makes me want to grab a pen and paper and say, "OK, what does this spell? M-A-S-K . . . T-A-S-K . . . C-A-S-K . . . F-L-A-S-K . . ."

IB´s chat is just a terrible waste Sadly, the same is often true of emailing them. Or just wait for the HK shift. :) Hey, ingenious! Maybe it's a cultural thing. Embarassed that it didn't occur to me. Seriously, I'll try that and report back. Should be interesting.

There, now, doesn't that feel much better? :cool: Why allow a putative jerk to disturb your placidity? :) I'll tell you what's worse than WERE/WAS: people who say "new-cue-lar" :mad: :mad: :mad: AAAARRRRRRGGH!

:confused: No, just busting your chops for being so intense about people with a different opinion. :(Lighten up. Try ten deep, slow breaths. Do your early-morning pre-market positive-visualization mantra.:)

The date it went into effect was indeed 9-28-01. Or should I say "affect" just to trip up your grammar checker? LOL:) I dont know what it is this week, but we seem to have a rash of new members who's sole purpose here is to break the balls of everyone around them. shouldn't that be...

Arzoo, Bundle -- a lot of us who complain are complaining, not about technology problems, but about how IB responds to customers when they try to get those problems resolved, about how IB implements serious policy changes overnight (e.g., margins, PDT rules) with no notice, etc. For example . . .

Actually, as I said in another thread, I'm not affiliated with O-X, but rather a customer of both IB and O-X, whose comparative experiences are described in yet a different thread. And yes, I've posted in multiple places where I've seen people complaining about various IB issues, including...