A moronic comment by someone who is clueless. A good broker LIKE IB will liquidate you before expiration as you don't have the ability to pay when assigned upon expiration.
WTF are you talking about? That's exactly what I said. Read:
If you don't have about $133K buying power in your account, rest assured your broker will buy those back for you. At the ask too. A good broker should have called you by now. IB won't, they're too busy or too understaffed.
I expect your position will be flat by 3:45 EST. Assuming you don't have the buying power.
My point regarding IB was you won't get a courtesy call first.
I've been in this situation only about 1000 times on Friday's over the years across multiple brokers. Both long/short, puts/calls, ITM/OTM, big positions/small positions.... Fidelity for one will call you at about 1PM and say that if its not closed by 3:20, they will take action and close it. If you tell them "you are watching it" and you have a track record with them, they will say fine and you can ride that bitch to the bitter end. 3:59:59 EST. As long as they know you have your eyes on it. Its the exact same thing with Schwab. Wanna debate this?
I made no derogatory remarks in my above post regarding IB, merely that you won't get a warning. Good brokers build relationships however, and that is sometimes worth a premium. The ONLY thing IB is good for is its cheap. There's not much else. Care to debate
that?
I don't know what your deal is and why you always feel compelled to defend IB, but there's a laundry list of shit that's wrong with Interactive Brokers. A TON of shit, across all aspects of their operations, starting with their customer service that they obviously recruit from GED programs paying $0.25/hour more than fast-food joints to entice the top of the classes. And the labor market must be tight as you have to stay on hold for 30 minutes before you talk to some idiot that doesn't know a stock from an option. I realize English is a second language for your Panda ass, but next time you want to respond to a post with some drunken Friday night attack sh*t like that I suggest you slow down first, re-read the post a few times to make sure you fucking understand it, and then think twice before you write a response. Have a nice day Ming-Ming.