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I once read somewhere that major brokers will deal with the issue of physical delivery on futures expirations, for a fee, but can't find it again. (self.investing)
Interactive Brokers closing account, won't let me deposit funds to avoid liquidation
I had my best trading day all year and in a very long time but have no one to talk to about it
Blackrock just added up to their $LUMN position
+8 million/2500% gain in 2 months, +20 million/5000% since April 2023
No reimbursement policy if hacked - IBKR Canada
Rates cut will send BETR to the moon (Better Home & Finance Holding Co)
If you want to day trade professionally, it's ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL that you trade with a professional platform that charges options fees.
Would you guys have handled it differently if you were in the same situation?
Would you guys have handled it differently if you were in the same situation? Sharing my investment experience with bad risk management strategy.
Worst brokerage platforms errors you have seen?
Worst brokerage platforms errors you have seen?
$COIN / Bitcoin ratio is stupid. Long BTC short $COIN
Just got approved for Options Trading on IBKR
USA: Options for automatically moving small amounts of excess funds from a bank into a money market mutual fund or similar? (is this "sweep"?)
Only 700 shares available for shorting on IBKR
A bullish case (w/DD) for Fisker FSR (SI: 41%)
Taking advantage of high lending rate and dividend yield
Lending out ABR and securing 15% annualized return
What’s the point of selling naked calls if you need to have the cost amount of shares regardless?
Interactive Brokers not filling orders, filling orders above limit price
HEAVY CAUTION!!! Closing a Short Put Option deep ITM...
Questions about bonds, mainly US treasuries
$LMND - Potential Gamma Squeeze
I want the same Column in Interactive Brokers to help my option game.
Price of Crude Oil vs Middle East death & injury tolls as reported by CNN
ITM put options expiring, but not enough cash in my account to purchase them
Last 35k left and looking for strategies to 10x in a short time
How is MooMoo? Recommendation for Canadian trading platforms.
CHEATSHEET: The Basics of Short Squeezes - A 3-min Read
Starting a fund partnerhip. How to go abiut it?
Must US brokers send an FYI about market orders to their clients who placed a market order in the past month by law?
is there a broker that allows automating weekly put writing?
Why does Fidelity have such terrible Treasury bond spreads and yields vs. market?
TD Ameritrade is beginning to charge users USD$50/month maintenance fees
Td Ameritrade to Schwab: how's order execution quality in Schwab?
Which free bond scanners(with ratings) are out there and which ones do you use?
Investing from Switzerland: IBKR vs Trading212 vs Degiro
Help finding spiked up/down stocks
Capital gains / Dividend tax on taxable MMF's for a foreign investor
Which online brokerages should I consider?
Can I get a count? DRS Price Hike: Would You Change Brokers?
How do American investors directly access foreign markets?
How are brokers like Lightspeed or Dash Prime for portfolio margin buying power?
Cost of options contracts:- AAPL / NVDA comparison
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IBKR, DEGIRO, Saxo... this guide explains the pros and cons of each one: eupersonalfinance.eu/articles/best-european-brokers-for-options-trading
In most European countries you can’t open a normal brokerage account in your own name at 15, so the first step is getting a parent on board. Either they open a junior/custodial account where that’s available, or they open the account in their own name and invest for you with an agreement that it’s “your” money. For Europeans, three solid brokers in my opinion are Interactive Brokers (IBKR), MEXEM, and Trading 212. All are properly regulated. IBKR is the biggest and great for long-term ETF investing and global markets. MEXEM uses IBKR’s infrastructure but often has slightly better pricing on some European stocks. T212 is very beginner-friendly and commission-free.
IBKR fills half the orders or more from its own dark pool and has a ton of dark pool order algos.
I know a few people that use ToS for the screening and TA and just use IBKR for the actual trades.
Anyone use IBKR? How are its screeners, better or worse than TOS?
Part of the reason rotating away from robinhood over to IBKR...most of retail buys on RH now, and pulls the shares over to the dark pool.
Weird - there was no mention of any stocks here! Just a screenshot of my IBKR, below: https://preview.redd.it/5a0plp8y283g1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=199b12b08d4e26bf42aa5598a9b9aade0f652ae4
My brotha in IBKR, what’s that 😭, I have -94% in performance since last January as noob. Don’t do that brotha, brotha ewww 😭😄
My new positions are NVDA, PLTR, JPM and IBKR.
That has nothing to do with the risk free rate. The borrowing fee is a market made fee that is primarily driven by supply of stock available to borrow. I‘m occasionally shorting stocks now since a while and these rates on IBKR are accurate.
Fake. That is IBKR. You withdrew the money.
IBKR vote here. I started out with the limited stuff WS offered but learnt the ropes on iB. I don’t bother much with the TWS or desktop as I’m never rolling multi leg strategies. It will become very intuitive. I love the options chain in iB and can’t really stand the WS one anymore.
https://preview.redd.it/ttmsstos333g1.png?width=1320&format=png&auto=webp&s=3d328548c657fc86aa0ee6eea9433d18ae3d06a7 IBKR is up, here are my positions.
Some things I’ve noticed. I have an IBKR account and Robinhood. The IBKR is Roth Cash Account and Robinhood Regular Retail Account Cash(No margin in either). It seems liquidity is slightly better in Robinhood. I execute the same trades daily in both accounts. But my annual percentage gains are better in Robinhood 36%+ ytd vs 12.5%+ ytd. I have right under $1k in Robinhood vs right over $2k in IBKR. Pros of IBKR -The early market opens sooner than Robinhood -The spreads are more detailed and verifiable against Robinhood vice-versa -Their app gives you more market news Cons of IBKR -It seems Robinhood gets trades executed faster(more liquidity/or access to dark pools, Better network?) -The graphs for your account seem less comprehensive/missing info for percent gain for 1 yr/ytd. -No tracking for 1 day. -Both are PFOF(which may decrease gains) -they have some tool to make buy and sell limits while your looking at the graph, which gets in the way of actually reading the graph. Pros of Robinhood -Better overall gains(possibly due to smaller volume/easier to executions) -Better tracking of gains/losses -Gains/Loss on trades Graph(tracks your winner/loss ratios) -graphs showing insider,hedge fund and retail investor bar graphs of purchasing on some stocks. -better transparency with daily volume,average volume,P/E ratios, dividend %. Cons -I get this subjective feeling that they stall on making trades every once in a while. Almost as if they are letting the price rise up to have a third party buy and sell your stocks for a higher gain but leaving you to bag hold the investment in case the price whip saws. -I subjectively feel like they could have better execution sometimes but maybe selling information to others to profit deceptively. -There should be options to totally get rid of ability to set market orders vs limit orders to protect buyers from stink bids.
Everyone always says that IBKR CS is poor, but I've had pretty good service via. message through the website. YMMV, obviously.
Thanks, I found learning TWS was a pain. I tried the ibkr app and for options you had to pay monthly for subscription. TD AT the app is very basic but in emergencies you can rely on. The good part with TD AT is they have chat support, which is very helpful. Forgot to mention that. IBKR CS is very poor. I tried to ask them if I can sell CSP and I gave up eventually on them. I have an account with ibkr but not for options. I might use them if they improve their desktop.
Your first mistake was transferring from IBKR to Questrade. Gave up amazing FX conversions that save you thousands to get cheaper commissions to save a couple bucks.
I haven't used Active Trader, but I am more or less happy with IBKR. I think I saw you posting recently about Active Trader which prompted me to look into it, and although it looks like a nice platform, it did not compel me to switch, although the Level 2 data would be nice. I've used Wealthsimple and Questrade before, and recently opened a MooMoo account. MooMoo also provides level 2. I am immediately turned off by their marketing, but it actually seems like a pretty solid platform... I use IBKR Desktop and the app, but not Trader Workstation. I feel like they are building IBKR desktop up to eventually replace TWS and they are constantly adding new features. That being said, I've been finding it quite buggy lately and it's frustrating me. The app on the other hand, is excellent. IBKR provides institutional level tools and products, at the expense of being fairly complicated. Rates are good, margin is cheap and extra services (news letters, courses, etc.) are solid. I doubt I'd leave, but I may use MooMoo in parallel.
IBKR Desktop is much easier on the eyes and more intuitive than TWS.
Pretty brutal OP sorry about these losses. I have to question the thought process though about loading up on MSTR calls without any corresponding hedge. Someone smart enough to accumulate this amount of money surely could’ve thought about what would happen if it did not go his way. IBKR has a risk navigator tool that could’ve helped avoid total destruction.
All the kiddies on RH should really graduate to a "big boy" broker at some point. Fidelity, Schwab, IBKR
bro you obviously just transferred your stock to IBKR right?
That's what you get transferring from IBKR to WS.
Idk if I’m getting fucked by fees tbh. All the research I do says IBKR is competitive but it’s $3.85 per contract per round trip which is pretty steep.
Nah, IBKR is legit. Margins still better than thinkorswim. AMP has been around for a while but I don't have enough trust to put a ton of money in it. Low fees is mainly why I use them, that and I can connect to Tradingview.
I trust IBKR and enjoy their workstation but yeah it’s probably not the best futures broker
IBKR so about $15k I think
CCTG is blasting off. can't buy it on IBKR
Not only have I paused IBKR I have removed it from my menu. It can't hurt me this way
Issue with HOOD is you could get IBKR instead
I lost $32K. Where can I apply for a refund in IBKR? Please let me know the procedure.
IBKR does mark to market pricing, even on overnight trading (which took me down another 20k)
Anyone else having trouble signing into IBKR?
Well lots of youtube videos encourage people to trade crypto with like 3-5x leverage so you have to expect when crypto drops any appreciable amount you get accounts liquidating equities to cover. But anyways IBKR reported this month, client margin loan balances of $80B which is 39% higher YoY
Right or wrong, I used the 'Close all positions>100%' feature on IBKR today. Up 20% for the year and would rather endure lost opportunity costs than a drawdown.
Three ways to make money in this game: Be first, be smarter or cheat. I cheated on that little test IBKR give you to unlock options and then I was first into NVDA 220c at open I did 2/3 and still lost
I’ve did this with tastytrade, they are a lot nicer to me as I have a way bigger account with them than with IBKR and in general the reps are a lot more accommodating. I do earnings a lot and sometimes the stock gaps up on AH trading, I then want to delta neutralise my long calls to capture the gap up. In situations like these, even when I don’t have enough margin left the customer reps calculate my new AH deltas together on with me and short those shares for me to capture the Gap and effectively close my position. Thereby overriding my margin, but they get that the position is delta neutral as many of them are options traders themselves. Kudos to you for understanding my situation and not just calling me regarded for doing this as I have options trading experience just not much with IBKR.
I don't know of any brokerages that allow trading in South Korea (maybe IBKR but I'd check first.) There are no foreign ordinaries in the US for South Korean stocks and the few that exist (GDRs, perhaps? See Samsung) don't trade.
SGBX made me too nervous to buy. Definitely a missed chance but I felt like any individual buy candle could be the shorts covering and we wouldn't know for a bit until fintel or IBKR refreshed.
I agree. But you get used to it. Also, I have questrade. But they are expensive to trade options but good for getting real time market price without paying extra like IBKR
Register with IBKR and start investing. The ASX tracks the S&P500 but with worse returns, and of course we don't have anything close to the Mag7.
I like Robinhood for the UI. Speedy and easy. Doesn’t always have spread accuracy but I can deal with it. Schwab is absolute trash. My TD account transferred to this and I absolutely hate it Opened an IBKR account and am very impressed that I can invest globally in any market. Haven’t played with the app much. May eventually switch fully. But just not sure how good it is for quick day trades
hahhaha I’m sorry for the word salad, was pretty mad yesterday about the Opportunity cost. Yes I think you understood perfectly what I was trying to do, I believe it was an unsettled funds issue here. I usually trade with Tasty and just moved to IBKR, tasty is more lenient especially when calling their amazing customer reps. OCC cutoff time is 5:30, IB only cuts of 5 min before that and yes basically SPY went deeper ITM past that, as you have pointed out already by then it’s too late. Still managed to get the first 100 shares and sell them on, now I have my second batch of 100 shares, wich I’m still holding. I also submitted a complaint ticket with IBKR to see if they’ll comp some fees out of goodwill.
I understand your frustration. But SPY wasn't *deep* ITM until after the cutoff set by IBKR at 5:25pm, but of course enough to make exercising profitable. My guess is that you had insufficient margin to exercise. IBKR have very strict limits for margin, and unlike many other brokers, they don't issue margin calls, but start to automatically liquidate your positions once your margin requirement is breached (if I have understood this correctly). That you were able to exercise *one* may be due to either fluctuations in the price of SPY, or the fact that your first trade left a lot of unsettled cash/trades in your account, which may impact your margin somehow. But *please*, for the love of God, use punctuation! I'm gonna have to lay down for an hour to recover from reading your question without a single question mark.
IBKR gives me overnight rates minus 0.5% on cash. Also subject to rate cuts of course
Look it up in the IBKR app. You will understand how it works. I don't use Robinhood.
OP says account uses portfolio margin, which IBKR requires 110k for. Hmmmm.... If it really was a portfolio margin account, this would work? (Assuming I'm understanding OP correctly, that he exercised one option and then sold the shares in AH and tried to repeat)
Hi all, I am working on writing some calculators and was trying to decide what a good data provider would be to get options data. Looking for IV for specific contracts and the current price of the ticker. I am debating in my head whether the extra cost of polygon is worth it compared to using something like IBKR. I was hoping to hear some opinions/get some guidance. I can use yfinance to get the ticker price but I get rate limited because I am hitting a lot of tickers using concurrency methods in python. For options data, I am using polygon. I was annoyed to see that if I just want the ticker current price that it would be another $30 a month in polygon in addition the the options plan. I appreciate any help!
IBKR is the best platform without a doubt.
I trade with Interactive Brokers due to their cheap fees. I had an account with Scotiabank iTrade but I can still use their pro-trading platform for live streaming options and level 2 data since it's free for me and then execute my trades on IBKR mobile.
Nothing wrong with your strategy except maybe you not accounting for the amount of margin needed (likely cause of the failure to excercise) Are you saying tasty trade would let you exercise and auto liquidate because of insufficient margin? Following to see what does IBKR say
* Naked shorts. IBKR allows you to do so. * If you're interested in a specific short to stock, it's possible that it has a targeted inverse. For example NVDQ is 2x inverse NVDA, AXS is 1x inverse TSLA etc. * Go long on non-AI stocks (possibly with leverage). If AI crashes, it should drop more than others, and you can rebalance your position towards AI then to get it for cheap. * Sell calls on AI stocks you already own. I imagine you don't have the appetite to sell naked calls. Many ways of going about it, each with its unique risks. Good luck.
Try Schwab, tastytrade, IBKR. I have accounts with the first two and have never experienced that.
Seems you nailed the “repeat” part of the IBKR ad.
You’re right✅for a small Canadian account, the win is mechanics + data, and IBKR Canada (with paper trading) is the practical pick; Questrade’s per-ticket fee hurts small legs. Actionable flow: grab options history from Cboe DataShop (OPRA day files) or Polygon, store chains in Parquet/DuckDB, then compute IV rank/percentile by tenor/moneyness and expected move from the straddle. Filter for liquid names (OI > 500, spread < 10% of premium), simulate cash‑secured puts (15–25 delta, 30–45 DTE, 50% take‑profit) and defined‑risk verticals; include commissions, half‑spread slippage, and assignment risk. For execution, use mid with a 1–2 tick nudge and skip weeklies with wide spreads. Track implementation shortfall and only keep setups that survive it. I’ve used Snowflake for storage and Prefect for scheduling, and DreamFactory to expose the same features as REST to backtests and a lightweight dashboard.
IBKR doesnt let me open the Options tab with the message "Spreads are not allowed for OPEN". anybody having the same issue?
Hoezo kan jij IBIT handelen op IBKR?
For active trading, use IBKR or TOS. For investing, use Fidelity.
Wat? I mean, you went looking for brokers other than Schwab, Fidelity, IBKR, RH etc. just stick to trier and proven.
Brooooo some dude bought spy calls on my IBKR just before close lol 😂 when I find that dude 😡🤬😤🤬 I have crippling depression 🤪🤣
Well I don't know for sure but they are an 'execution service' rather than an actual broker they use IBKR so maybe IBKR have not supplied any?
Please update the answer to this, in interested to know the answer. In my mind, you own 100 shares of Alphabet — you literally own 100 shares inside your IBKR account, it shouldn’t really matter what exchange you bought them, but I could be wrong. You literally own 100 shares in your account
You think IBKR wouldn't treat Xetra Alphabet stocks as a collateral (I.e. the same way as it treats nasdaq stocks)?
The fact that IBKR liquidates ITM 0dte options at like 2:30pm is causing me to leave hundreds on the table with good trades. Any solution to this besides "have enough money to cover exercise"?
I’m liking it, I also use IBKR and tasty for options and futures
I trade U.S. options using IBKR their fees are very competitive, execution is reliable, and they support a wide range of option markets. To analyze and track trades, I pair it with Tradevision, which makes strategy planning and monitoring a lot more intuitive without adding clutter or over-complicating things.
IBKR email: "help us better understand how you trade options" bro you know damn well how I trade options I'm down 20k ffs
up 150% on 0dte SPX puts I bought two hours ago. Thank you IBKR and your global trading hours. Probably going to sit the cash session out, looks like a theta day at best.
No more shares to short on IBKR
I got in at the top and it's in my IBKR account which is chronically cursed. All red bags. Does not bode well for GNS imo.
Brooo, I thought I was falling asleep so I left a GNS order in at IBKR and it filled at the top 😭😭😭😭. Sure hope you guys are right about this one....
All of Robinhood margin rate categories are lower than IBKR. The blended rate from iBKR makes it even worse to choose them compared to a flat fee from Robinhood. IBKR finally has competition and Robinhood took the lead for best margin rates
Anyone use IBKR? How come I don’t see margin buying power?
IBKR is down during the weekend. Why? I want to check how poor I am even though the markets are closed
Leaps on TSLA, GOOG, NVDA always worked for me. The only problem you face while closing these leaps is the ask/bid spread is too wide and often the orders are difficult to close unless you manually tweak the limit order price several times. Where you do check the liquidity? I use IBKR (I pay for the live data), but still I don't fully trust the open interests shown there.
Those October 2025 conversions increased the outstanding shares, not the float. Conversions create restricted shares that don’t hit the borrowable pool until the holders deposit them, margin them, and let brokers lend them out. That’s why Fintel/Ortex/IBKR still show a ~480k float, CTB is still 400–600%, short availability is still tiny, and Nasdaq’s 1.4M shares short still calculates to ~300% SI. If those 4.9M converted shares were actually in today’s float, SI would have already dropped to ~25% and borrow rates would have collapsed—but none of that happened. The dilution will matter after Dec 29 when Proposal 8 opens the faucet, but right now the tradable float is still micro, and that’s why this setup still exists.
Yes, simultaneous entries and exits. I don’t have to set the orders up, TOS active trader and Webull turbo trader have my OCO templates saved for entries. I have IBKR Pro on desktop and it’s been a horrible experience for options.
Literally.... Those October 2025 conversions increased the outstanding shares, not the float. Conversions create restricted shares that don’t hit the borrowable pool until the holders deposit them, margin them, and let brokers lend them out. That’s why Fintel/Ortex/IBKR still show a ~480k float, CTB is still 400–600%, short availability is still tiny, and Nasdaq’s 1.4M shares short still calculates to ~300% SI. If those 4.9M converted shares were actually in today’s float, SI would have already dropped to ~25% and borrow rates would have collapsed but none of that happened. The dilution will matter after Dec 29 when Proposal 8 opens the faucet, but right now the tradable float is still micro, and that’s why this setup still exists. Until dec 29th. That float is right and this is an extremely tight position. If I was a short in this, id be absolutely terrified rn if people were to start buying. This can move violently on very low volume.
This user finally sent me an october filing i already proved wrong in another sub. For reference I said this in private. " Those October 2025 conversions increased the outstanding shares, not the float. Conversions create restricted shares that don’t hit the borrowable pool until the holders deposit them, margin them, and let brokers lend them out. That’s why Fintel/Ortex/IBKR still show a ~480k float, CTB is still 400–600%, short availability is still tiny, and Nasdaq’s 1.4M shares short still calculates to ~300% SI. If those 4.9M converted shares were actually in today’s float, SI would have already dropped to ~25% and borrow rates would have collapsed but none of that happened. The dilution will matter after Dec 29 when Proposal 8 opens the faucet, but right now the tradable float is still micro, and that’s why this setup still exists. "
"Last week, Interactive Brokers (IBKR) raised its price target for DFLI to $19" Explain your rationality here and how it's not misleading. Nobody is denying the catalyst and the price going up, just that your way of presentation is dishonest.
And they will keep doubting it because it's just the price target of a random asset management company, not IBKR themselves. I want DFLI to go up as much as everybody else but maybe instead of trying to mislead people with that PT talk about those major catalysts.
IBKR has a desktop version that I have no trouble navigating.. It can be kinda buggy at times, but they seem to be improving it every month. TWS is another story entirely.
Thanks for the response! I'm guessing you are setting up orders ahead of time to get in on both at the same trigger, then noticing the difference? I do lately just feel like there is a lag. I'm definitely losing money every time. I was thinking of switching to IBKR, but I hate their software. I also don't fully understand how to judge where I should move the bracket on my options chart. I know that probably sounds crazy but I'm only 6 months into this and all my charting and analysis goes off the underlying chart. If you feel like explaining it a little, you can send me a message, if not I understand. You've been very helpful ... I feel like I hijacked this post lol
How to calculate/see principal on which I pay interest? (IBKR) I have a positive cash balance, but also some short stock positions. I assumed that I wouldn't have pay interest, because positive cash, but I was wrong; I do have to pay interest. The interest overview just shows the interest rate and the principal amount per date but not how to calculate that amount. I would like to understand the calculation, because it may be more efficient to have a bear call spread instead of short stock.
How to calculate/see principal on which I pay interest? (IBKR) I have a positive cash balance, but also some short stock positions. I assumed that I wouldn't have pay interest, because positive cash, but I was wrong; I do have to pay interest. The interest overview just shows the interest rate and the principal amount per date but not how to calculate that amount. I would like to understand the calculation, because it may be more efficient to have a bear call spread instead of short stock.
How to calculate/see principal on which I pay interest? (IBKR) I have a positive cash balance, but also some short stock positions. I assumed that I wouldn't have pay interest, because positive cash, but I was wrong; I do have to pay interest. The interest overview just shows the interest rate and the principal amount per date but not how to calculate that amount. I would like to understand the calculation, because it may be more efficient to have a bear call spread instead of short stock.
Thank you! I also found the Probability Lab inside TWS (IBKR). ## TSLA For TSLA it shows a skew; higher probability for lower prices. https://ibb.co/dJ1Nn6W8 I played around with several strikes. Using Jan 2027 bear call spread (500-320) below: https://optionstrat.com/build/bear-call-spread/TSLA/-.TSLA270115C320,.TSLA270115C500 I notice that if the price remains unchanged, the spread results in a $1700 loss (-24% on the opening credit of $7200). That's quite a big loss if nothing happpens! The break even price is at $392 (-4.2%). This seems worse than short TSLA stock, which has a breakeven at +/-0%. ## GOOG GOOG seems to have a skew as well. https://ibb.co/j9V7r5WP But option strat shows a profit if price remains the same. https://optionstrat.com/build/bull-call-spread/GOOG/.GOOG270115C220,-.GOOG270115C340 GOOG spread looks better than the TSLA spread. Only cons are that upside is limited and price reacts slower due to <1 delta? I am interpreting that right?
how did IBKR come up with this fucking genius invention. '+' now adds 20 shares instead of 100. so i wonder why the hell i long 120 shares. so if i sell 200 shares, i suddenly am 80 shares short?! wtf.
I just got an email from IBKR saying OPEN had a spinoff and there is a corporate action event. I can't find any information about that but I do know that OPEN is doing some warrant shit. So did IBKR send a wrong announcement or what. I also clicked the link in the email.
thinking about doing the same, IBKR seems much better
If it's a pennystock it's a 50/50 if XTB has it or not, missed out on a lot of september runners because of that, moved to IBKR now and it's SO much better.
Ill try but im on IBKR and dont really know how to do it because i dont the see the option on the app hope ill be able to sort this out