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got it - that's beyond my risk tolerance.

I am an equity investor. What is exactly a fly debit?

So you made 909k/6.8m in one day? talking about betting the house....

On that last point, what was the name of that site where you would log trades in real time for others to see an actual performance?

WTF! 900k in one day - what was the size of your net assets at that time?

Oh wait - you are selling books and courses.....

Very respectable.

OK, a NASDAQ 100 buyer who bought on 03/13/2019 is up 2.8% as of today. It's a good unbiased benchmark we can all look at.

I felt bad during the Christmas break - my retired dad scored 35% buying an SP500 ETF and I only made 4% with a delta neutral-ish diversified portfolio....it is being tested right now but holding fairly well. Regardless of risk, asset class, trading style or leverage - what is your annual...

why so?

Ok look at my Account: Securities Gross Position Val > Net Liq Val Net Liq Val = Equity with Loan Val Cash = Net liq val - Securities Gross Position Val and is negative. Current Excess Liquidity = 4.2x Buying Power (since yesterday) When you say Net Liq. which figure are you referring to?

Illiquid instruments, Portfolio.

Got you. So BP triggers liquidation algo and not EL then.

Thanks - if BP can go up 4x EL, wouldn't that trigger auto liquidation algo?

Sorry for coming back on this, but costs on the side, would shorting a box offer more borrowing that what IB offers? There margin requirement for illiquid securities are around 100%....

IB's help desk is unreasonably strained by the number of enquiries these day. I am therefore hopping for an answer from the ET community instead. What is the difference between BP and EL and why is BP > EL in my case? Would IB start auto liquidating when EL <=0 regardless of BP balance? (if...

I second this question.

Interesting. Adderalin took the time to rxplain it step by step at least. But I am skeptical by all this. Execution is key here.

Risks on the side, does shorting a box make economical sense compared to a loan? It seems only pros with seats on the exchange can manage to make it profitable ....aligator trade for the rest of us. I am more interested in shorting short date treasuries if anyone has worked out of it works...