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Quote, "Not accurate. If you do not see customers' orders how are you able to route specific orders through Ideal? Not only do you see customers orders, you also determine whether Ideal can benefit by routing to them and if not you then route to other ECNS or NYSE." It is accurate. The question...

Our Chairman answered these questions very clearly at the last Interactive Brokers Group Earnings Call. The order from the brokerage unit always goes to an exchange. There are certain exchanges where we are specialists, so at that time when we see that the exchange, where we are specialists...

It will go away overnight.

We do not support this kind of spreads indeed.

I am happy that we are on the same page now. OCC-based haircuts dictate a minimum reqirement. Each broker applies its own additional safeguards that must be approved by regulators. There is nothing to argue about.

Quote from opt789, “How old are you exactly, how many years have you been a risk manager, how many hours have you spent working with managers at the OCC about their RBH file and how Haircut (PM) is calculated?” So, you imply that risk based haircuts are portfolio margin. You changed your...

If you read the thread more thoroughly, then you will find out that opt789 statement is incorrect and it was proven right here. It is not a voluntary "dressing down" but rather mandatory. Regulators will never allow risk based haircuts to become a portfolio margin because it is really scary...

You can expect leverage better than 1:6 for portfolio consisting of 40 stocks of fairly large companies for 24 hours. It will happen only if positions are spread through the portfolio and not concentrated in a few stocks.

I suppose you are asking about IB portfolio margining. There is no notion of intraday for PM. It is flat through the day except we are loading new risk parameters after 2 AM EST and the margin can and will change after that. We reserve our right to load new risk parameters any time in case of...

Question, "is it possible to initiate both legs almost immediately?" There is no need to use any special tool to do it. One can issue two orders practically at the same time. They will be executed pretty much instantaneously for liquid products.

It is possible. I even do not understand what your problem is.

Sorry, we fell a bit behind in time with our Internet information because CME published corrupted risk file yesterday. CME changed margin requirements last night. Your TWS shows new correct margin. I can also reconfirm the intraday period that I provided before. The trade desk information...

FX GLOBEX intraday period is from 8:20 to 14:45 EST.

Let me clear the situation. Futures only accounts have 1/2 intraday reduction. Options are not.

Quote, "The TWS demo has a fictitious data feed, but it has the advantage that it works 24/7. I don't use WebTrader, but I suspect you are seeing the same dummy data feed as the TWS demo uses." The demo is intended for a demonstration of our platform functionality only. The data feed is not...

The previous letter contains a correct answer.

How about IB WebTrader?

OK, I deserve it. It was just so irresistible to write an answer to this nutcase. Oops, I deserve 10 more :D

ElCubano, What makes you believe he is our customer? It is impossible if you trust his statements.

What makes things worse; IB has 8 years of history of constant growth of number of customers, their capital, and executions. We did not miss even one quarter since 1999. It definitely proves that the whole World of traders is crazy.