Interactive Brokers Margin Requirments

[Rickshaw Man]

The minimum charged by the exchange for 1 Nasdaq 100 mini futures contract is $15,500. Interactive brokers charge nearly double that to hold 1 contract in the overnight session $27,993 to initiate the order and $25,448 to maintain it.

I remember during the 2008 crisis they would bump this contract up to $7000.00 due to volatility, then back down to $4000.00 when things calmed down. IB has a lot of exposure offering so many products in various countries has to be the reason for such outlandish margin requirements.

 

[CannonTrading_Ilan]

 

[mikeriley]

Here is Ninja Trader's. I use to use Tradovate, and
theirs's was much lower than IB's also. No idea why
anyone uses IB for futures.

https://ninjatrader.com/PDF/ninjatrader_futures_contract_details.pdf

 

[maxinger]

2008 - NQ was 1000 points
2022- NQ is 12 000 points

So NQ margin requirement should increase by 12 times !!!!!!!!

that's why the Exchange has to create mini, micro, nano, super nano ..... things
to bring down the margin requirement.


Who knows, there might be mother-of-all Tulip Mania coming up soon
due to war and famine and a massive exponential increase in the human population
and a massive decrease in the wild animal population.

 

[xandman]

Human fertility rates have been on the decline. Also, we won't have nearly the same number of new workers in this century as the last.

I can't remember where I saw the stats. Take it at face value.

 

[JackMorgan]

IB caters to traders

The others cater to gamblers

Thats the diff