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Each account which is linked would be eligible to receive the 100 concurrent lines of market data thereby allowing for unique entries by account. Note that since the account is linked by a common user, you will only have one account session active at a given time.

IB allows you to designate your IRA account as either cash or margin. The margin account does not allow one to short stock or borrow money to purchase securities as may be done in a non-IRA margin account, but it does allow more expanded option spread and forex capabilities. In both the...

Bob111: The terminology may be a bit confusing here, but it appears as if you may be referring to a different tier of account access and that is the ‘user’ level. Account holders, whether master or sub, generally have the ability to add multiple users to their account. For example, they...

Perhaps some clarification would be helpful here as this thread appears to involve discussion of various grouped account structures offered by IB, one being a 'linked' account type another a 'Friends & Family' account type and a third a ‘Separate Trading Account’. To start, a linked...

To clarify, a broker dealer cannot, by regulation, offer margin privileges to an account maintaining equity below $2,000 (or USD equivalent). If an account holder's equity falls below that level, orders may still be accepted as long as the account maintains sufficient cash to pay for the long...

To clarify, a broker dealer cannot, by regulation, offer margin privileges to an account maintaining equity below $2,000 (or USD equivalent). If an account holder's equity falls below that level, orders may still be accepted as long as the account maintains sufficient cash to pay for the long...

While it's accurate that we have historically not provided account holders the ability to recharacterize IRA account types (e.g. from Traditional to Roth), we will be accommodating such requests in recognition of the changes to the Roth IRA eligibility rules going into effect in 2010. Please...

If you log into Account Management and click on the Tools icon you'll find the Short Stock Availability tool provides indicative inventory information, estimates of the number of shares currently available for borrowing, estimated borrow rates, rate trends, and an indicator of how many different...

There could be a number of legitimate reasons for this. Number one IB debits/credits cash based upon settled funds not the closing cash balance. Second, you may have an overall credit balance of settled funds but it may be the net of long and short balances in various currencies. Short...