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Thanks, wr. By security device, I meant IB's key. I'd never post screen shots with any numbers, including p/l. Too much info to identify yourself. Kids are too young to have accessed the computer and wife is technically illiterate and has no idea about my password and or IB key. So very little...

Here's what I'd like to know from IB: on a purely technical basis, if the trading desk can close my positions (as in when margin limits are breached), why can they not open positions for me without my knowledge using the same authentication credentials? What technical restrictions are in place...

In terms of timing and the positions being harmless yes. But the underlying question is how and why can IB open positions without your permission. Your options were bought automatically, right?

Jus before close on Friday.

The drawdown was less than 2% of my account when the unauthorized trades happened the first time in August and I had bigger fish to fry in August than waste time on 1-2% drawdown. Made a killing in August focusing on the price action. This time the unauthorized trades were quite profitable but...

Good to know someone else is having similar issues. Mine weren't any options for hedging. IB just increased the size of my ES shorts by 4 times. I entered the short position on Friday close and didn't log in on Monday. I still had plenty of margin leftover, but a violent move to 3250 next week...

I watched my screenrecording several times just now, there are no standing orders at the close on Friday and the logs show I didn't log in on Monday when the trades were made. A total of 30+ trades were made on Monday. No algos or automated strategies were active. The thing is that the giant...

They kept passing the phone from one person to the next. After 15 mn of music on hold, I gave up. Since my position/loss was minimal, I told myself it was some kind of a system glitch, so I decided to not waste my time pursuing it with IB. But not this time. This time, it's real criminal...

:D...seriously, I've been with IB for quite some time now and never experienced anything like this. This is a big red flag. Reporting it to CFTC and the Treasury through their whistleblower program. I didn't lose any money, but this isn't ok, folks. IB was already getting suspicious when it...

Thanks. Just tried to open the logs after reading your post. TWS lets me see logs for all the days since the 4th of Dec, except yesterday, the 9th.

Seems impossible since I couldn't have run a code. Gateway wasn't open, no API connection, just a manual entry through TWS on Friday after which I logged out.

Desperately need help with suspicious activity on my IB account. I opened a small position on Friday close and logged out. Didn't open until today's close and, to my horror, my position size was 4 times the original. The API was disconnected and there were no instructions for automated trading...