IB Margin Rates

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Quote from J.P.:

If you would first check the return on these funds--and calculate the amount of time you would actually be in them--before trashing IB you would likely see that you would net about $50 A YEAR, likely less. So 'small guy,' if that's all it takes to screw you then you must admit you are a cheap whore.

As the great Henry Louis "Skip" Gates said:

I'll talk to your mama outside

Seriously, I just don't get the restriction. Sure maybe it's $50 but that's my $50, and if I want to buy a crack whore with my $50 that's MY crack whore baby! When yields eventually rise are they planning on lifting the restriction? I doubt it.....