IBKR

Hiro-Nishi

Good luck trying to get any money or help from WS, have had problems with them before we're i couldn't sell options because their system was down, support told me to just wait for it to be fixed and they will help me, fast forward few hours and they say they cant help me, so I had to sell at a loss, and right away switched to IBKR.

Techmonk1234

This is not AI trading for you. This is you giving instruction to claude to place (**not** submit) an order. You still have to go to IBKR to confirm it. I have been using it successfully. I take screenshot of tickers from my screener on trading view, send the pic to claude, then write an instruction like - "place market order for first 3 tickers, $xx each". Then I go to ibkr and place the order manually. Lot of other cool things you can do. I am learning myself. Portfolio analysis, backtest with all stocks data that IBKR hosts. There may be other stuff you do with claude analyzing your positions and providing recommendations but I haven't done that yet. Like maybe asking it to analyze my open option positions and ask it for strategies to reduce my losses lol.

HungerSTGF

It won’t be stale data cause they’ll have the tools to request data from IBKR What tickers it might think are worth looking at first might be based on outdated info though

PleasantAnomaly

First time I've ever seen IBKR Message me about an IPO!

mista_r0boto

Already own it through IBKR

trust_it_bb

IBKR is shit - but their stock is a banger.

Expensive-Anxiety-63

In addition to allocations made to retail investors by the underwriters, we currently anticipate that certain of the shares of Class A common stock offered hereby will, at our request, be offered to retail investors through Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC and Fidelity Capital Markets, a division of National Financial Services LLC, Robinhood Financial, LLC, and SoFi Securities LLC, it's not on IBKR these are your options from the S-1. Just google things or ask a chatbot it can tell you anything a human ever would.

noob09

How does one preorder? Can it be done via IBKR?

averi_fox

It's amazing when its given the right context. That's why I'd wire it up with my spreadsheet that defines allocation goals. Then create a repo of skills like "update spreadsheet to match IBKR", "rebalance portfolio" (according to goals from the spreadsheet), "find recent surprising news", "play devil's advocate". Basically natural language scripting

cl0udNinja

Holy shit do NOT do this. I’ve been testing Claude recommendations with live IBKR trading data on a paper + my real account. You will get absolutely cooked. It’s an amazing tool for analyzing where you fucked up by consolidating data. It’s been shit real time, it’s just not there yet. There is a reason quant firms spend millions a year, a 200$ Claude subscription does not equal quant level real time trading 🤣🤣. Holy fuck this could be bad for some people

Albondip

IBKR is opening the IPO to UK residents.. they want as much exposure as possible.

Breezy8081

IBKR

ishouldworkatm

Reminds me when IBKR told me I had (25000) margin I was like « oh ok thanks that’s enough » After a few emails the accountant told me the parenthesis means negative

TDAdams

Great conversation guys. One idea that has worked out for me has been to buy the brokers and forget about them. GS MS JPM and IBKR Bet on the house, not the gamblers.

No-Pressure4609

Yeah - they do PFOF. You can do IBKR pro if you want best prices, but it means you pay commission on stock trades and higher commission on options

APJ30

I use both IBKR and WS. IBKR for complex multi legged strategies and WS for simple CSP and CC. WS has a setting where you need to turn on or off auto excercie feature. So if your long option is ITM on the day of expiry, they auto excercie it for you. I have turned it off but I still don't trust them. I have read horrifying stories like the one OP posted here.

MitchCurry

Added to my positions in IBKR (7% more shares), IOT (14%), ISRG (8%), NOW (14%), NU (6%), TYL (23%), VEEV (15%), GWRE (14%), PRCT (12%), QXO (15%), and NTDOY (6%).

6yXMT739v

This is BS?! I tried to replicate it with IBKR and max gain is around 2.120 USD for a Long Put - 100 contracts

Boring_Praline_3586

SpaceX lists on Nasdaq June 12 under ticker SPCX at a fixed IPO price of $135/share, valuing the company at $1.77 trillion.  Biggest IPO ever. IBKR just opened pre-IPO access, but only through their UK entity. The offering period runs June 4 through 6 PM on June 10, and participation is limited to clients who are tax resident and located in the United Kingdom.  Since you’re based in Brazil, the pre-IPO allocation won’t be available to you through IBKR. Once SPCX starts trading on the Nasdaq, any standard brokerage including Interactive Brokers can place the order.  So you’d be buying at the open price, not the $135 offer price. Worth noting: SpaceX’s xAI subsidiary burned $7.72 billion in Q1 2026 alone and showed a $2.47 billion operating loss in the same period.  The Starlink business is solid, but the AI unit is hemorrhaging cash. First quarterly earnings (10-Q) won’t come until around November 2026, so you’d be flying somewhat blind on financials for a few months. I’m not a financial advisor, so this isn’t a recommendation either way. Just the facts to help you decide.

PapaCharlie9

Looks like we both get to learn something new. The fact that it is **IBKR** showing those dates is significant. The "w" doesn't just mean weekly. It apparently means *any contract* that isn't a monthly or LEAPS. So that includes the quarterly contract on Sep 30, and importantly, the **End-of-month** contracts (Jul 31, Aug 31) that are only available on global markets for SPY. Brokers that don't support the global market for SPY contracts wouldn't show those EOM contracts. So, like I said, you are SOL. You can't do what you want that far into the future. There are going to be gaps because no weekly contracts go further out than 6 weeks. Particularly if you are trading contracts on any day other than a Friday.

ecphiondre

In my IBKR app, short selling section

flaming_pope

It’s very much broker dependent. Robbinghood will force you to excise your hedge for intrinsic value, even though you still have premium. Absolute theft. Their reasoning is that there’s a chance the market is halted during the hedge’s expiry. The mechanism is heavily exploited. IBKR on the other hand gives you full control on how to close your hedge, but basically says you accept the risk incase you fuck up closing the hedge.

ecphiondre

4576 shortable shares on IBKR (up from 0). Cost to borrow is still 202.

cryptopolymath

You should have used IBKR for Options in Canada. Better simulations for multi-leg trades. I hope it works out for you.

fenstapuza

Good morning! Looking at OptionCharts, lots of puts got added. Right now I'm seeing a put/call ratio of 0.46, compared to the 0.03-0.04 (one hiccup to 0.14 two days ago) we've been having. Looks like most of them are Jul 17 $12.5 ones. CTB 202.6 (IBKR), anyone got more data?

No-Clerk7943

This is how I blew up my portfolio with IBKR dude. I called in and the guy liquidated the rest of my position at a very bad spread. The defined loss doesn't work.

iamfr33agent

Um... I made the mistake of looking at it before going to sleep. That pile of shit is now UP 13% overnight right after dying and I am now considering buying more on IBKR. I don't know why. I made $15,000. Please talk me out of it. I don't want to give it back to the Mossad or whatever the hell is going on here. This is NOT NORMAL.

nomemory

I am using IBKR, and this is one small nightmare that never happened to me so far. How IBKR handles those situations? Just to be prepared?

APJ30

Don't use Wealthsimple for such multi legged strategies, use IBKR

promonalg

If they automatically liquidate that position you might be in a deep hole... My friend had adobe spread on IBKR, someone exercised his short put and IBKR immediately sell his protective put instead of exercising and made his account very negative.. good luck..

LegitosaurusRex

Rates are only like 12% at IBKR, so it's not really an issue to have to wait a while. But after IPO day happens and any potential pop is immediately sold into by profit-taking, bagholders escaping, and people realizing they bought the wrong stock, I don't see any world where it doesn't crash that day or the next at the latest.

amanj41

It’s so ass. The only reason I moved from Robinhood was because I only had gambling money in RH and the PDT rule was a PITA. IBKR mobile app was also insanely confusing to me though the core product is obviously elite

amanj41

I need to move back to Robinhood or IBKR from Fidelity. Makes me sick looking at my 7580p’s being up 150% knowing I’ll wake up to them -50%. Overnight trading is so fucking clutch

MySmolCok

It's bad, but IBKR has fucked me way harder

TT_Vert

If I am I have no idea how. I cannot show an image but I use IBKR desktop and am showing weeklies further out which are denoted by a gold W. I am just trying to understand why there is such a huge gap between 7/31 and 8/21 w/o one option available yet further out they have 8//31 which is only 10 days after the 8/21 You can see what I see here: [IBKR.jpg](https://cfbinc-my.sharepoint.com/:i:/p/dave/IQAVoWPBMk3dRKBoY2Ut5YRQAb1ILqgcyKb-fK0b_Nicvg8?e=ntX2hf) This is what I see (A few months out): (W denotes weekly according to IBKR) Jun 04 1DTE W Jun 05 2DTE W Jun 12 9DTE W Jun 18 15DTE Jun 26 23DTE W Jul 02 29DTE W Jul 10 37DTE W Jul 17 44DTE Jul 24 51DTE W Jul 31 58DTE W Aug 21 79DTE Aug 31 89DTE W Sep 18 107DTE Sep 30 119DTE W Another odd thing, looking at 7/24 I only have strikes between 741 and 769. I am showing all strikes. Basically its +/- $14 at current $755 valuation of spy.

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...