Interactive Brokers Market Capping Question

Quote from IBsoft:

It is. The limits in the US for non-pinks and non-bbs are very wide; you should not be running into them. Can you PM me a recent case?
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nope. no pop ups recently
 
Quote from rbartell:

No, and I don't feel I should have to split my purchasing power between two brokers, learn a second platform, work with a second set of API instructions, etc.
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If you're so tight for capital you're worried about "purchasing power," you have deeper issues than IB's capping rules. Anyway, forget "second platform, API..." and just open an account with enough capital to accommodate the odd point/click risk-control trade if/when you're prevented from executing at IB, for whatever reason -- technical or policy based. It's just common sense. What would you do if IB were down for several hours or days?
 
If there is somebody who would be able to suggest an alternative to IB, I would like to know.

There simply isn't. We just have to accept it.
 
you can use anyone as a backup. most won't want to have the same buying power just sitting around, but just about anyone would do.
 
Quote from Rodney King:

If you're so tight for capital you're worried about "purchasing power," you have deeper issues than IB's capping rules. Anyway, forget "second platform, API..." and just open an account with enough capital to accommodate the odd point/click risk-control trade if/when you're prevented from executing at IB, for whatever reason -- technical or policy based. It's just common sense. What would you do if IB were down for several hours or days?
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Oh the irony.
 
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