IB: I shorted 1 mini SP; IB says I'm down more than $10,000

[guest_trader_1]

To be clear, I have no beef with the OP and he seems like a great guy, but this was f**cking funny.

I know! There's no harm intended. The BS is too strong to let it pass, we must make a comment.

 

[murray t turtle]

If OP is really living like this, then he would need to be making at least 5 million/year to justify the hit on quality of life. Since he is trading MES, I believe he is not.

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THAT; or if he is a night owl type, most anything @ night.......20 years @ IBKR, he may have figured it out by now.

 

[Clark Bruno]

I have done the same for many times without ever seeing a discrepancy. I think when you consider the instrument specific reset times you will realize that all the data is absolutely correct.

I've had incidents with IB where realized profit was way off.....earlier this week I bought an ETF....then 3 days later I bought some more of the same ETF....then a 2 days after that I sold half of the position, and then sold the remaining shares the following day.

The trade was profitable, but IB "realized profit" said I had lost $5500 on it. Second time I have experienced this type of error. Usually happens when I buy the same security twice without liquidating and then liquidate the positions on different days.