IBKR

ecphiondre

Cost to borrow is again above 200 (203 on IBKR). Up from 177 earlier today

Hampster90

IBKR...

ecphiondre

IBKR CtB is 197% from 194%

jahdyudnwl

Nearly Blew up my account day trading. Had to downgrade my account at IBKR. I belong here.

One_Sound8511

So they don't have the liquidity to purchase? What happens when this shoots up? Will we have another robinhood on our hands? I have IBKR.

shortvol_trader

exactly right. delta is expressed as a decimal so 0.10 = 10 delta, 0.30 = 30 delta. if IBKR shows 3 delta on your short strike that's 0.03, which is pretty far OTM. when people say "sell 10 delta puts" they mean the short strike has a 10% probability of expiring ITM based on the options pricing model

CJBlueNorther

Robinhood won't let me deposit cash into my broker account anymore ever since I completed Ch 7. I guess they're salty that I didn't have to pay back my balance in my gold card lmao Oh well greener pastures. Hello IBKR

ecphiondre

My IBKR doesn't even reflect the price fast enough. I don't know if it is 9.70 or 9.92

Quaxem

Borrow rate changes between brokers IBKR is 177% on Robinhood it is 281.50%, idk about other brokers currently

ecphiondre

It is 177% now on IBKR. Another person here also said it.

ecphiondre

231 shortage shares and 177 CTB on IBKR

TheLordOfStuff_

Don’t mfers just use IBKR for options over here?

vanceraa

PDT does apply to non americans lol, IBKR UK and RH UK are both required to comply as is any other provider

shortvol_trader

short strike delta is what matters for strike selection. when people say "sell 0.10 delta" they mean the short strike sits at 0.10, not the net spread what IBKR shows as "SPX delta" is the net delta of the whole spread — short minus long — which is always lower because the long leg partially offsets the short. useful for tracking your total directional exposure across a portfolio, but not what you use to pick strikes

Much_Candle_942

IBKR question - the portfolio value shown at the top left, really feels like a random number.  Shows today's change in value (9-10%), that's impossible to explain by sum of all changes in holdings (4-5% on average). I want to find out which positions have the most influence on the total value, so I can watch and monitor them closely, and ignore the rest.  Any idea how?

dorkstar1

IBKR should acquire WEBULL and upgrade thier tech

Ambitious-Cake9404

No price predictions — anyone giving you those is guessing. What I can give you is the data. $HCWB is currently the #1 most shorted stock in the market. 90.52% of the float is short — meaning 3.84M shares are sold short on a stock with only 4.25M shares in the float. After backing out insider and institutional holdings, only ~400K shares are truly free to trade. Zero shares available to borrow at IBKR. Cost to borrow locked at 757% annualized — shorts are paying $2,074 per day per $100K just to hold their position. They haven’t covered a single share in 9 straight days. On top of that — CEO, CFO, and a board director bought $430K in open market stock on the same day. Analyst at Maxim Group raised their price target to $5. Company reclaimed pipeline rights at no cost. Nasdaq extension secured through July 29. Nobody knows where it goes from here. But the structural pressure on the short side hasn’t changed at all.

Zann77

I’ve been a satisfied customer of Charles Schwab for 45 years. Fidelity and Vanguard are also well regarded. They all have mobile apps. if you want to trade ex-US tickers, I think you need IBKR. someone will correct me if I’m wrong.

projix

You can buy everything in the US on IBKR though. Well, at least I can, I'm classified as an institution with a LEI code, I am not sure if a retail account would have the same privileges.

KittyLover-7

Hood, IBKR to name a few Can trade spx options overnight

thatsmymayo

Avgo earnings already on IBKR? Lol

SIRCAVEC

IBKR

kds0321

Looked at it, not interested. Quantinuum is the one that I'm trying to buy into (IPO on Fidelity but not Robinhood or IBKR).

gillieson

Nah 0 available at IBKR for example

Elegant-Hat-8377

Was buying CRSR @ 10.51 and BS IBKR sent an alert and had to confirm with a security code and missed the dip

thetradingfenix

Most journal tools import IBKR statements, but the charting + Greeks overlay you're describing is less common. TraderSync and Edgewonk do entry/exit visualization on charts, but real-time Greeks exposure tracking usually requires a separate risk platform or custom scripting in something like OptionStrat. For the core workflow—parsing IBKR statements, plotting entries/exits, and tracking P&L patterns—standard journaling handles that. The challenge is most tools treat every trade the same way. If you're running iron condors one week and long calls the next, generic stats don't tell you which setup is leaking money or why your gamma blowouts keep happening on the same market condition. I built therisingfenix.com/journal after getting frustrated with that exact gap. It ingests broker statements (IBKR included), maps trades to charts, and learns your specific patterns over time—so if you're consistently getting stopped out early on spreads but holding winners too long on directional plays, it surfaces that instead of just showing aggregate win rate. Greeks tracking isn't live (that's more of a broker-side or options analytics tool thing), but the per-trade breakdown and pattern recognition cover the journaling side you're describing.

L3g3ndary-08

I just got hit with a PDT alert with IBKR. I wish they would remove it from me because I'm rambling right now....

HyperbaricCrustacean

Europoors can also open accounts on IBKR. Saxobank also offers options on american equities. Some Norwegian and Canadian oil companies are listed on the NYSE in addition to their own stock exchanges. That means you can buy american options on them

Lighting_Guru

Short float is 7.23% IBKR has 909 available shortable shares Borrow rate is 27.4755% Days to Cover is .97 This is NOT a squeeze. You need borrow rate over 200%, 0 shortable shares and DTC at least 15 days and a short float at minimum above 30%. This wouldn’t even guarantee a squeeze. With a catalyst, absolutely. They popped on good news today, the move already happened. Stop misleading others.

basicpreset

No shortable shares at IBKR

Mug_of_coffee

daystoexpiry.com is the best app I've tried with an IBKR sync. It doesn't show greeks, but does pretty good cost basis tracking and the developer is actively soliciting feedback.

Joejoecornrow

IBKR say they have a whopping 973 spce shares for short. This is gona pop tomorow imo. All my cash is tied up in ASML atm, it’s 60+% of port and not selling.

Nelvalhil

U can join all regards on IBKR

RD_006

Cocksuckin IBKR denied me level trading options. Gotta wait whole month to re submit forms. Anyways, DRAM compounding.

Tavit1405

Wow interesting I didn't know spreads had their own order book. But on IBKR my positions are already grouped by spreads. Thank you for the replies btw

iamfr33agent

About 48,000 shares at .2613. About 20,000 on IBKR at .13 https://preview.redd.it/5bmr4p5rov4h1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49fddce0b750742ffd183402f5a748ef7d0bb849

Dianna1B

Yes, because you have a high risk position and no wonder they are increasing the margin requirement. I bet Webull, IBKR, fidelity are doing the same thing.

hv876

No, IBKR, the fuck do I want to participate in IPO of something Lift-off Mobile. I was asking when does my port lift-off

DuckRaman

Maybe try a real broker like IBKR.

Cagliari77

On IBKR (Europe) whenever I go to IPO section, it says "No current IPOs available". This has always been the case for me. Is there like a setting I need to activate or get a permission for IPOs?

StayLucid_

My thinking has been the following: Company float 100M shares, yesterday's volume 280M. Average volume over the past 90 days is 12.1M daily volume. In other words, a lot of retail interest in this badboy. According to IBKR, 88% of lendable shares are utilized for shorting rn too. So high retail interest + high % short = gamma squeeze potential. Yes the MMs will gladly sell these OTM calls and delta hedge by buying stock.... but if the stock keeps going up, the delta of those calls they sold also goes up.... and they need to buy more stock.... then anybody who is short the stock (presumably HFs) starts sweating. If they all start scrambling for the same finite amount of stocks at the same time it leads to a gamma squeeze. Indeed it is difficult to quantify exactly what price the stock would need to hit for shorts to begin trying to cover. Also IV is insanely high so the stock needs to blow through some of these strikes to makeup for potential IV crush. Saying that, IV could still get bid a ton higher than where it is right now. Wouldn't be particularly surprised to see this blow through $10 in the coming days / weeks, even if the "fair price" is $4 or etc. I'm open to being wrong. I smell parabolic upside & bought some calls yday but if you are reading this and think I am being regarded please let me know.

3brcuse

diabolical Sivers pump. fuck if only i used IBKR

futtbuck3000

IBKR

LegitosaurusRex

Nah, today was a good entry price for the 2k shares I shorted. IBKR doesn’t even have any shares available to short anymore cause the short sellers see the free money.

potsmokinsocialist

SPCE shows no shortable shares on IBKR 🛸

kmouratidis

Roughly, the amount of borrowed (or at risk) money divided by your own capital. You can read [investopedia](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/leverageratio.asp) for better wording. For stocks it's easy. You have $20 and buy $30 worth of shares so it's 1.5x. For those options IBKR might let you open a position with $100k max loss even if you only have $33k (initial margin requirement, 3x leverage) but may close it if it drops to $75k because your equity fell too much (maintenance margin).

lobeams

Tastytrade, IBKR, Fidelity... Sheesh, pretty much anyone who isn't RH.

Inevitable-Winter299

$10! I also received an email from IBKR asking me to loan my shares out 😅

thetaFAANG

so, weird one, Thinkorswim (Schwab) has 15 strikes listed on SPCE options, while neither Robinhood or IBKR mobile show strikes that high, stopping at 11 my boomer retirement plans are on Schwab so I can't buy options there, but I would definitely have Aped into the 15 strike calls they will likely be available tomorrow everywhere, so we'll see where the price action is then

kmouratidis

No idea where you are able to buy this, but I can see both on IBKR.

Ambitious-Cake9404

$HCWB update — 12:16 PM 0 shares @ IBKR. 0 lenders. CTB just ticked UP to 694%. Lender depth: 2. Borrower depth: 3. More people trying to borrow than lenders willing to lend — with nothing available. Utilization: 92.19%. The borrow market is broken in one direction. 🔒

cl0udNinja

https://preview.redd.it/9gvl826ufp4h1.png?width=874&format=png&auto=webp&s=7028be55c2edb2fd22010d1998e46c23b2f11e1c Hey i filled at like 1.63 but that was maybe an h our ago? I use IBKR

wmzula

IBKR is glitching too

makmanos

It's a regulatory halt due to volatility, not just on IBKR. Happened a million times this past Friday also.

wmzula

Wtf is IBKR doing? The tickers are in Chinese

helemaalwak

Why is IBKR so fucking slow in loading my positions. SPCE bag too heavy?

udaretouchmyspaghett

Fee rate at 235% according to IBKR. No way it ain't popping

Leveraged_Lots

My margin is isn't the type you get on IBKR, it's a loan with a fixed kredit limit and interest rate, I can still get margin called but it wouldn't be a 35% drop, it would be closer to an 70% drop. If I haven't liquidated myself before the losses reach that, well then I fully deserve it.

hv876

IBKR is now allowing AI instructions enabled trading. I will never financially recover from this.

paulm1927

IBKR has Claude integration. Doesn’t work but it did restrict my account.

Ok_Support_6454

I just keep in mind that they are often laggards and can behave like flags in the wind. They are also not in the business of making *me* money. That said, I generally like the reports from Morningstar analysts (freely available on IBKR for example).

Reostat

I didn't even know Robinhood was available in NL. Why are you using it over DeGiro or IBKR? (I had DeGiro and hated it. Using IBKR now and it's "fine" but overly complicated for things like currency swaps).

MarienBean

more like 'im regarded and dont know how to use IBKR so my opininion is its ass'

lordofming-rises

Its 7 dol now on IBKR. I only bought 1 call 4.5 dol for 1.10. I should have bought more...

progmakerlt

Where do you see this overnight market movement of options? It is not on IBKR at least...

ThePinkySuavo

its not really a regular overnight market. Overnights happen at week days. Some brokers like IBKR or RobinHood allow to trade at non regular hours on Blue Ocean ATS.

Bubbly-Biscotti3579

Blue Ocean ATS on IBKR.

Dianazepam

IBKR can do overnight, just bought 1k

Temporary-Basil-3030

IBKR

chunksawat

I think IBKR only allows to buy a certain percent above close price when Overnight Trading - Need fact check though

Icy-Dimension2914

Anyone know why my IBKR overnight buy orders for SPCE aren't getting filled above the ask?

Icy-Dimension2914

Anyone know why my IBKR overnight buy orders for SPCE aren't hitting at all?

Bubbly-Biscotti3579

Can confirm IBKR pro lets me buy early too

PckMan

I think the same but at the same time people *are* stupid and at this point this has already gained momentum just from being posted in a sub with millions of desperate regards thinking they're being handed the second GameStop on a platter. People confusing the ticker is only icing on the cake at this point. And for what it's worth confusing spce and spcx is easier on IBKR.

Obvious_Inspector779

Okok thanks. I’m using IBKR and indeed it’s incorrectly showing Virgin Galactic and not SpaceX

NotRllytho

Me: researching Greek industrials Also me: realizing IBKR doesn’t support Athens exchange and I likely can’t even buy the companies I’m researching

flingent

IBKR

Good_Character_20

Quick layered answer since most of the thread is talking past itself. Theoretically the collateral covers the settlement and no auto-close is needed, but operationally brokers auto-close anyway because of two specific risks the textbook doesn't mention. The dangerous one is AM vs PM settlement. Most XSPW Wednesdays and SPXW weeklies are PM-settled settlement uses Friday's 4pm close, so what you see at the bell is what you get and the outcome is predictable. But third-Friday monthly SPX, XSP, NDX, and RUT are AM-settled, meaning the settlement value (SET) is calculated from Friday's opening rotation across all constituent stocks. That print can differ meaningfully from Thursday's close because individual constituents gap differently overnight, and your spread can look comfortably OTM at Thursday 4pm and settle ITM on Friday morning's SET. This is the main reason brokers auto-close they're hedging the overnight gap risk for you whether you want it or not. Broker-specific behaviors I've seen (policies change, verify with each): Fidelity and Schwab tend to be aggressive about auto-closing short legs of AM-settled spreads in the last hour Friday, especially in IRAs, and usually won't auto-close PM-settled positions. IBKR non-pro is more permissive and lets you manage yourself, but their overnight margin penalty for SET exposure is steep enough that most people close anyway. Webull and MooMoo are retail-conservative, so expect auto-close behavior similar to Fidelity for AM-settled. I don't have current first-hand on E-trade. The PM versus IRA account distinction is real and material. A $1M PM account: the broker can recover an adverse SET settlement from existing margin headroom, so they leave you alone. A $25K IRA: there's no margin to draw against and the broker can't put the account into a debit, so auto-close fires earlier and more aggressively. Same trade, same broker, opposite behavior depending on account type. One last thing worth knowing DNE (Do Not Exercise) instructions only apply to equity options where exercise would create a share position. For cash-settled index options there's nothing to exercise; settlement is automatic via cash debit/credit. DNE has no meaning on SPX/XSP/NDX/RUT, so it won't help you opt out of broker auto-close behavior either.

nthnreallymatters

is Robinhood better than IBKR for the actual trading?

blorg

It's a Norwegian tax deferred account. Transaction cost is commission, European brokers still have this. FX cost is to convert Norwegian krone into USD to buy the stock. 0.25% is actually quite reasonable for this, Schwab or Fidelity would charge you 0.75% doing it the other way around, plus a foreign exchange fee, total fee would be over $1,000 to buy on an European exchange. IBKR is the cheapest broker for both Americans or Europeans looking at cross-border trading, but they don't do this tax advantaged account for Norwegians. The benefit of the tax deferral far outweighs the trading fees.

Boynoiz3

App name? I’m still trading on IBKR but I don’t like it so much.

vanceraa

Yeah I mean IBKR is excellent for charting and executing more complex orders, the mobile app UX/UI is just awful compared to RH. Most of my trades are monthlies or more so I don’t usually look past MAs/VWAP/RSI I’m back at 24k rn so hopefully i’ll be moving back when I hit 30 for some buffer

hudson701

Ok - well I use IBKR TWS on one of my external monitors and have some basic subscriptions for Lv1 and lv2 data, around $12 a month. I do all work/reading/charting etc of my external monitors and execute off RH phone app. It's actually really fast, very fast today actually on MU.

CorruptedArchan

Had 500 shares fill on IBKR with no issue. 

TheOneWithThePorn12

This morning it took me a bit on IBKR to get 200 shares. everyone is buying.

vanceraa

How’s the UI? I’m with IBKR which has great spreads and fills but the UI is fucking awful

JonRadian

Only real functional differentiation is that IBKR offers access to foreign stocks (e.g. Samsung, SK Hynix).

InevitableAd2436

I saw it on yahoo finance trending a few days ago bc it was up massive Saw it was a low market cap “quantum in space” stock that was ripping bc of the space quantum claim, but saw they made only $1M per year. Tried to short it on IBKR, but no short able shares and a 765% borrow rate Then I looked further and saw it’s T Boone Pickens son running the company for over a decade so they have essentially unlimited money and I realized it was probably a good buy at $14 when I tried to short it there. Now it’s $45 lmao.

supergrega

Can I buy it on IBKR? :D

trix_is_for_kids

For the 401ks, they probably just didn’t rollover one from a previous employer. Plenty of reasons to have multiple brokerage accounts. I personally have 3. 1 for my main ‘forever’ holds, one for options/ swing trading, and one with IBKR for international stocks

Brilliant_Voice1126

Yes. Even signed up for a IBKR account so I could buy it. No ETFs have adequate exposure. Most 1-4%

SangerGRBY

$HOOD - Prediction markets + most likely new traders will open a HOOD account over IBKR/schwab/TD. $FIGMA - more than a design tool. Too ingrained in SWE companies. Its used in Stakeholder collaboration, requirements sign off, design style repo / guidelines.

Fast_Signature7684

yeah i could also use IBKR but the taxes negative is too much, the broker i use automatically deducts taxes on every trade, and i do a lot of trades would be too much work

aDonkeyWithACarrot

Ah interesting ok nice one we print hard tomorrow hopefully I also have 2 DELL calls I’m from Europe but I just use IBKR and they have normal calls/puts here

xjrh8

Is there limits imposed on options on SPCE already? IBKR showing me max order size of 5.

USSZim

What's annoying is indices (like SPX) have had overnight trading for years but only IBKR has it. Robinhood only just started with extended hours but it isn't for all users.

Dangerous-Berry7399

IBKR Pro is the gold standard for this — their order routing is genuinely superior, especially on illiquid contracts where spread manipulation kills you. For deep OTM LEAPS specifically, execution quality matters more than most people realize; I've used StrikeEdge to find setups and then routed through IBKR Pro to actually get filled near mid. Bad execution on a $0.02 contract can mean the difference between a 1000% return and getting stuffed entirely. What kind of options are you typically trading?

One_Sound8511

I am in IBKR and I am only seeing calls up to $35. Does anyone know why?

UsernameTaken_123

If you have IBKR or a more serious broker you can buy SK Hynix directly in Korea. I bought a huge position, expecting it to moon further once it lists in USA and all the Robinhood retailers buy in

OSRSkarma

Ya should be a complete overhaul, hopefully people like it. Been in the works for a while. Still trying to get as many brokerages as possible, i know IBKR won’t work yet but robinhood and others should have no issue