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If this is truly a regulatory issue then IB should specify which regulatory issue created this change. Surely IB should want it's clients to be fully educated and informed on this issue. If they can't identify the regulatory issue then I call IB out on issuing "total effing BS" !!

Looks like IB's Stress Test Report is "refunctioning" again. Well, at least through Friday. (h/t to GWB for the word "refunctioning" and phrasing it with the word "again").

Is anyone else having problems with IB's Stress Test Report? I'm only getting a message "No Stress Test Summaries available".

My daily statement of 7-7-14 (Mon) shows exposure fees charged for 7-3-14 (Thu) and 7-5-14 (Sat). So I guess the "intermittent arbitrary nuisance fee" is turned back on again. I suppose I should take a college level course in Hungarian logic and ethics so that I could have a better...

My daily statement for 7-4-14 still doesn't indicate any exposure fee.

So I put on another position Thursday morning 7-3-14 and the risk stress test for 7-3-14 indicates that an exposure fee should be charged for that date. Yet, once again, I'm not charged an exposure fee on my daily statement for 7-3-14. This daily statement clearly shows the new position...

Oh great, so now it's an "intermittent arbitrary nuisance fee". I went to an all cash position end of day 6-27-14, so no fee. The soonest I'll put on another position is Thursday morning. Until then I can't confirm.

I'm no longer being charged an exposure fee even though my estimated exposure fee in the Risk Stress Test depicts this fee as increasing. Is anyone still being charged an exposure fee? Has anyone received any word from IB as to whether this fee is being dropped?

So I'm still puzzled by this "exposure fee" aka "arbitrary nuisance fee". For Friday the 20th my statement shows no exposure fee. However, if I go to Account Management>Reports>Risk>Stress Test, then it shows that my exposure has increased 2.5 times for Friday the 20th (from Thursday the...

Now I see that I've not been charged an exposure fee for both the 18th & 19th even though my position and risk profile remain unchanged. In my other account with IB which has the same positions there are no exposure fees charged at all. IB's proprietary software system that assigns an...

So I get charged an exposure fee for the 16th & 17th, but I don't get charged (yet?) an exposure fee for the 18th even though my position and risk profile remain unchanged. I'm not sure how to interpret this exposure fee nonsense.

Funny, that. I'm increasing IB's credit risk exposure to me in terms of probability in order to generate additional revenue to cover the cost of the exposure fee.

I received the following response from IB CSR: OK, great. Now we need a distance, speed & acceleration module for that steamroller.

Does anyone know if the Risk Manager analytics tool can be used to calculate the exposure fee for a proposed portfolio or trade? I don't see anything about it in the Risk Manager manual and I played around with the Risk Manager but there doesn't seem to be a way to generate a theoretical...

I also get the feeling that something's going on at IB. It could be anything from compliance with new regulations to a newly hired risk & compliance officer who is very conservative. Then again they may have taken on a new customer of considerable size that represents a major risk. Like the...

IB boasts on it's Risk Management page that "Real-time margining continuously enforces limits for each account, automatically liquidating positions if any individual account violates its limits at any time." I think positions of high risk would be liquidated well before reaching a 30% loss. So...

This is the reason I sleep in late on any Tuesday following a federal holiday Monday. It seems the gremlins have an extra day to really mess things up.

Given the South African Government's desire to redistribute the ownership of the gold mines to the black population, you may wish to consider these as front runners in the sell short category. However, keep in mind that gold can move upward quickly and all gold mining stocks will react...

I think Wild is a very funny man. His comments always make me laugh. Even better, his ability to elicit knee-jerk reactions from hypersensitive U.S. citizens leaves me ROFLMAO. I would like to encourage Wild to speak freely.

It seems there's always an exception. The Internet HOLDRS (HHH) is an ETF that is not exempt from the rules of short selling (SEC Rule 10a-1).