IB Intraday Margin

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chroniclenyc

From my understanding IB offers intraday margin of 25%, as in if you $25,000 you can buy up $100,000 worth of equities. However, when I was doing margin checks, the maintenance margin and initial margin appear to be the same.

So, if you max out your margin at 4x, you will be liquidated with a small move against you. Is that correct? Seems like a pointless feature to have if that is true since your initial margin must be much lower leverage than 4x for any realistic trading.
 
The margin call at IB will not be after you "go into the red by a few percent". They update your account balances every few minutes. If your available margin is less than 5% of your account balance you'll get a warning message. But if your available margin goes negative, you'll here "ding" indicating that liquidation(s) have occurred. No additional warning, no delays, nada.
 
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