Margin and forced liquidation - please help

if you don't understand that futures margin have increased.
so now your cash level is less.
even though you paid 'cash' for the stock, your new cash is less from increased in other products like futures.
as for options there is no margin. and other stocks. brokers can eliminate margin for some ETF
margins can change too.
instead of $800 cash for a futures contract. the exchange now wants $15,0000 USD or double it even for daytrading it. due to high volatility and no lock limit down in intraday trading.
there is now no limit in how low or how high the price can go in intraday futures trading which rediculous. price doesn't go from $20 to $1 in day. especially for a commodity. it's not like stock that is bankrupt news even worthless bankrupt stocks don't go to zero or 'negative price' which really discredits the credibility of the exchange.
 
rts232 said:
Hello all!

I'm in a bit of a puzzled state. I received a message by IBKR notifying me about a margin increase for a certain stock I own. I do have a margin account (not portfolio margin account), but

1. The only asset I hold is said stock;
2. The position was paid to 100% by my own funds (aka I did not use any kind of margin for this).

Since I am new to IBKR and the whole margin topic, I contacted support just to be sure about, what that means for me right now.

I was told that my available margin will decrease with this newly announced margin increase for said stock and that this is what is left before any kind of liquidation will take place. The customer service agent didn't reply to any of my questions beyond that, sadly. [CS is a total disaster, but this is another topic.] Now I am somewhat alarmed and therefore wanted to ask you guys for help:

Am I right to assume that whatever happens, IBKR cannot liquidate a stock position paid to 100% by my own money at all? [Assuming, of course, I do not use margin in any other way.]
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I don't underdstand the quandary. You have, say, $10,000. You buy $10,000 worth of stock. What is the margin issue? Petterfy is trying to scam everyone with cheep tactics?

If I buy from you something worth 10K, with 10K, why would I owe you anything more?

WTF, IB is nonsense.
 
Yeah, it's just a generic message sent out to customers. It doesn't mean anything to OP.

IB sends out messages to customers or a subset of customers automatically based on some criteria.

The message may or may not apply to the trader. Or the message (like margin reqs.) may apply to any potential further trading.

Since this message was about a change in margin reqs. in a stock that OP held, IB sent it to him.

There's nothing nefarious or devious about it. It is up to the recipient to see how it applies to him.
 
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