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what keeps you there? Obviously, PDT rule is not applicable to you. These commissions are still too high.:confused:

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These margins are calculated for the overall portfolio. It is impossible to break these margins into each position by definition. Please, read a bit about risk margining before you ask questions. Dummy trader is totally incapable to understand all the rules involved. Experienced trader can try...

Futures margin can be covered by cash or net option value. Stock positions cannot be used for this purpose.

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IB Web site gives you all the information information on page "Futures Maintenance and Overnight Margin Requirements" Exchange IB Underlying Trading Class Intraday Initial Intraday Maintenance Overnight Initial Overnight Maintenance CFE VBI VX 1875 1500 3750 3000 Of course, it is...

Majority of the public here uses IB. It is much easier to write a message if you have problems rather then if you do not. It creates a really ugly picture on IB sometimes. An amount of comments on other companies is roughly proportional to the amount of customers using them. It can create an...

It is a front end of the brokerage system that resides on IB servers. This system is 100% C++ and it is damn fast. There is nothing wrong to have a Java front end. The bottleneck in performance is elsewhere. Well, I am not sure about charting performance of course.