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    This is how bad the IB Margin calculator and Support are

    Such an extraordinary initial margin is not a regulatory requirement and it is not SPAN. IB is discouraging you from trading of options with far (September 2017+) expiration. The liquidity is not great.
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    Future margin requirements at Interactive broker

    It is an error. Thank you for pointing that out. We will change "negative cash balance" to "negative Net Liquidation Value".
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    Future margin requirements at Interactive broker

    Equity with loan value is good to maintain a future position.
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    IB - Natural gas futures options (LNE)

    We found technical difficulties during testing. ETA moved to 20161112.
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    IB - Natural gas futures options (LNE)

    We will offer this product in a few days.
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    Anybody able to trade NY Coffee through IB?

    Sorry, there was a mistake of an operator, which will be fixed today. The ticker of liquid futures (KC) should stay unchanged.
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    Interactive Brokers Implements Price Caps

    We did not cut futures trading in retirement accounts. We increased overnight margin. The point was not to protect IRA customers but rather protect IB. We lost huge money in 2015 on Swiss Frank debacle. These losses were unrecoverable for IRA accounts.
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    Chinese and Indian brokers

    This "one can work on Chinese exchanges next on only USA exchanges" is not correct. If you are HK resident you are covered by IB-HK and you can trade everywhere in the World.
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    Chinese and Indian brokers

    You cannot define IB as an American broker. Check the bottom of https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=564. Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited is a Hong Kong broker.
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    Interactive Brokers - unannounced higher margin requirements today 10/16/15?

    110% initial margin on non-marginable stocks is a bug and it will be fixed quickly.
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    IB Initial Margin VIX Futures

    IB does not like to hold low liquid futures on your behalf. It is a way to tell you that. The initial margin for VIX is increasing steeply starting from June expiration. This additional initial margin charge was put in effect many years ago.
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    Generic Trade futures & options broker - anybody use them?

    Brighton, IB made Hard Red Winter Wheat available many months ago. It is easy to check futures availability here https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=marginnew&p=fut
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    IB TWS SSL question

    The user name and the password are always encrypted.
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    IB down?

    Did you try to call our Hong Kong office +852-2156-7907? They should be open from 8:00 HK time according to http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=customerService&ib_entity=llc.
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    Portfolio Margin Requirement for BAB

    It is a bit hard to explain in precise terms but roughly if you have just one or two stocks or ETF in your portfolio, it is concentrated. If you have let's say 6 or more about equally weighted stocks or ETF, the portfolio is not concentrated.
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    Portfolio Margin Requirement for BAB

    The margin is 30% if you are concentrated in this ETF. It is 15% otherwise. This information is valid for Interactive Brokers portfolio margin account. Other brokers could have very different requirements.
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    Extremely High Margin Requirements on Back Months - Interactive Brokers

    There is a logic here. We do not like non liquid contracts on accounts of our customers.
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    Futures broker with access to ICE currencies and other ICE products.

    We do not offer power/electricity swap contracts from ICE.
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    Futures broker with access to ICE currencies and other ICE products.

    How about an obvious answer? Interactive Brokers has it. Liquidity is not great though if you compare to GLOBEX.
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    Does TWS support multiple cpu cores?

    Well, not sure what is the best, but TWS will gladly use multiple cores.
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