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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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at least you can trade options For europoors like me its either dubious warrants and CFDs or IBKR which never gives access unless you make 727373737k a year
For UK investors: first, max your ISA allowance (£20k/year), all gains tax-free. IBKR doesn't offer an ISA, so use an alternative seevicer, like Vanguard UK, AJ Bell, or Trading 212 for that (look at comparison sites for best option for your case). If you're a beginner with no portfolio management experience, honestly just put it all in Vanguard LifeStrategy 80 (80% equity / 20% bonds, auto-rebalancing, OCF ~0.22%) inside a Vanguard ISA and never think about it again, the built-in bond allocation handles volatility, the auto-rebalancing removes human error, and the cost difference vs a DIY ETF setup is negligible compared to the behavioral mistakes most beginners make.
Open a brokerage account (recommend IBKR) Put all your money in XEON (euro money market fund) Every month sell 4500€ worth of XEON and put them in a world ETF for the next two years. You’ll end the two years with 20000€ (plus interest) of cash equivalents as a safety net for yourself, and the rest will be invested in a diversified portfolio. No need to think about it further. Adding every month may reduce your returns but will reduce your risk greatly, especially given the current economic environment and market valuations.
Classic 3-fund approach works well here. Keep ~€15k liquid as an emergency fund in a money market or high-yield account, then invest the rest: 70% MSCI World ETF (e.g. iShares Core MSCI World UCITS / IWDA) — global equity exposure, low cost 20% Global Aggregate Bond ETF (e.g. iShares Core Global Aggregate Bond UCITS / AGGG) — smooths out volatility, gives you something to rebalance from during equity crashes 10% Emerging Markets ETF (e.g. iShares Core MSCI EM IMI UCITS / EMIM) — extra growth kicker Why bonds at your age? You're not 22. A 20% bond allocation means when equities drop 40%, you're not panic-selling, you're rebalancing into equities with your bond cushion. It's not about yield, it's about behavioral protection. Use IBKR for the lowest fees. Stick to UCITS ETFs as an EU resident. Automate contributions, rebalance once a year, ignore the noise. That's it.
That really sucks. Try IBKR or TastyTrade, I haven't had this problem with them.
Everything. It’s easier to monitor positions, better charts, does not disconnect at random times like the TWS platform on IBKR, easier to send direct orders, better trading ladder, better OCO bracket orders and adjustments, better smart routing, no additional fees for options OPRA data, lower fees, superior customer service, better scalping setups, and you can track your trading performance on the website by seeing your average win percentage per trade, average loss, win rate, and there’s probably more I am missing. This is all for option trading, not related to other services. IBKR has some low margin rates, Schwab is pretty high and needs to be negotiated but can’t expect IBKR rates in return. IBKR isn’t bad overall, just not my choice for options. If you have access to Schwab(I believe they allow international accounts in NZ), google thinkorswim free trial and test out the trading platform with a paper account.
In 2021, the SEC amended Rule 15c2-11 to prohibit broker-dealers (like IBKR) from providing public quotes or allowing retail buys for companies that do not provide "Current Information" to the public. Should be ok to trade on may 14
Please provide your IBKR trading history; otherwise, this is just paper trading
I agree with a commenter below who mentioned that their account was registered in 2025 and claimed to have been investing for ten years. IBKR does offer paper trading; I recall the minimum deposit was $1 million.
Come on, you're just blowing smoke. You claim to have been investing for ten years with an account from 2025, but you only registered your IBKR account last year lol
robinhood's position management is brutal for small accounts. IBKR gives you more control but the UI is a pain. Thinkorswim is better for active traders who want full discretion. if you want something that just stays out of your way entirely, markets.xyz runs 24/7 and you kep your own keys.
As an IBKR holder, I'm always happy to see it mentioned in the wild lol
That's why it hit my radar lol I use IBKR for my taxable brokerage and was looking around at Korean companies.
One catalyst at least is that I’m seeing posts about IBKR now listing Korean companies, so might get some more bidding
Just use a real broker like IBKR. Fees are low and you won't have problems like this and also own the actual stocks
you can check the volatility lab in trader workstation, if you are on IBKR [https://imgur.com/nsfSw31](https://imgur.com/nsfSw31)
Mix of order flow, higher timeframes, compressions. I’m waiting to switch to IBKR to have live trades or at least position management for that!
IBKR lets you trade SPX options from 7pm to 9:25 am EST
Robinhood has bad fills. Use Schwab, IBKR, Fidelity, etc.
I use IBKR if i want a decent USD deposit. I do recommend always having 2 brokerage accounts though, you just never know when one might have an outage and you need to put on a trade. p/s ... it HAS happened before ....
Im Canadian and I cant find any where to buy this stock. please let me know where i can buy this. Etrade and schwab not allowed for canadians and IBKR does not support this security.
I broker with fidelity, and i'm able to buy it through their normal trading system. Just search the ticker SGOV. I can't speak for IBKR, because i'm no lt familiar with the platform i'm sorry.
Rabobank transfer into IBKR within 30 minutes funds are available
i see in other thread, many were with IBKR for decades with no issues, did you eventually got your money back?
Same on IBKR... Looked for Jan'27 as well, same problem.
But you might have to manually enter the trade dates, and the net gain/loss. I had to do this for my 2025 IBKR tax form filings.
I absolutely do not recommend day trading penny stocks. With almost 100% certainty you'll loose money. Why not daytrade futures or, even better, swing trade futures? Or, for less margin-related risks, swing trade stocks? The best broker, by far, is IBKR. I'm in Switzerland and, let me tell you, we have A LOT more regulation than other places and many brokers are not even available. But IBKR is, has low fees and practically all penny stocks are available. I use the OG IBKR interface and it is great. If you insist on your daytrading plan, you can even set keyboard shortcuts for almost anything, so buying and selling is practically instant, i.e. you disable all confirmation windows, press e.g. CTRL & B for buying, let's say 2 futures or something else for selling those. Extremely capable broker. I sound like a shill, I know, but IBKR is just that good.
Couldn’t find any shares to short for VCX or CAR on IBKR. What brokerage do you use
Doesn’t seem to work yet on Schwab. Only Robinhood and IBKR.
Why? In Australia we can still access US brokerages like Schwab or IBKR. UI is not as "easy" but so what.
I had to make my solo 401k plan and trust own an LLC because brokers wouldnt let the trust trade options. literally stuck at level 0 lol both my traditional funds and my roth funds seeded respective LLCs the LLCs can open brokerage accounts that allow options, on IBKR do you have something simpler?
IBKR: “You have no gainers today” 🤡
IBKR Pro offers a margin loan at Fed funds + 1.5%, which equates to 5.14% at the moment. Downside is that it's variable. Credit score is irrelevant to them.
Brokers to all my money. Calls on IBKR
Switch to IBKR, you can trade spx all night
Ok thanks. Is ToS best for trading futures options? Or other platforms like Tradovate or IBKR? I’m also concerned about the commissions on those.
Do you buy on IBKR?
I strongly recommend IBKR, but you'll still need $2k to use margin.
My broker, IBKR, shows prices overnight on my phone, and since I'm a degen trading addict, I tend to look at it wayyyy more often than I should
IBKR Portfolio Margin has a margin requirement of about 30%.
yeah I don't even bother w/ that. I have a report called performance by underlying and it groups my P&L to an underlying. So I can try to match things up to that particular wheel process OR i just pay attention to my P&L on that particular underlying and care more about that than the actual profits for that particular wheel sequence. IBKR doesn't identify the wheel strategy, it just groups rolled trades for the option in question. D
Didn’t hear about CAR going parabolic until last night. I put in a short sell order with IBKR (which had inventory available)… then chickened out & cancelled at the last minute, since upon further chart review I noticed CAR had multiple mid-day selloffs followed by EOD pumps to new highs. I thought why not wait for today’s close then decide. Darn it 😖
Yup. IBKR has lost the plot, especially in regards to design thinking and customer service.
extended hours options are a nice step but still leaves gaps on weekends when news actually drops. IBKR has some overnight coverage too though its clunky. for index-style stuff with weekend access, [markets.xyz](http://markets.xyz) runs 24/7 including saturdays which is where it matters most for geopolitcal moves.
for the SPY, i'll just use reports in fidelity. For anything not in my ROTH I use IBKR and just generate reports. For ongoing trades I do have a spreadsheet i use to track the price, difference from spread, etc. I have formulas that change cell values based on % from strike, etc. so i can watch them.
I now have a IBKR account and a HOOD account
IBKR is so cute with its _'your account is currently within margin standards compliance, this notice is to let you know ...'_ blah blah bblah we do this shit every day
Is IBKR a good buy VM
Moomooo is robbery thats why we use IBKR. Less fees, but also less colors and memes
According to this… TMDX has 110% of institutional ownership according to IBKR https://preview.redd.it/3wpixf47uowg1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53c5af38f9271a99dc2962693680ce312b90f3bf
IBKR is so drepress of interface
No thanks IBKR lol: *"IBKR FYI: Stock Located for Possible Short Sale* *Hide Details* *We were unable to locate shares to complete your recent short sale. Shares of the following securities are now available to be sold short (on a first-come first-served basis): - CAR for Account* *FYI: Changes in Analyst Ratings* *Hide Details* *Some investors use analysts ratings to stay informed about their investments. Analysts have changed their ratings for one or more companies in which you hold positions.* *The following summary displays the affected companies, the current number of analysts by rating category and, in parentheses, the recent change in the number of analysts rating the company within each rating category.* *- CAR@NASDAQ: Buy: 1(0), Outperform: 0(0), Hold: 5(-1), Underperform: 2(+1), Sell: 0(0). "*
Nope, Too exciting. I have 3 lots of calls around. Working on some more ideas that I might share in a day or two. Also trying to figure out how to make IBKR do the right think to help with swing trading. I am missing features and was going to ask people on how to do certain things with it. I am new.
Ah didn’t know that, wish I did. Gave up IBKR a few years ago.
Overnight SPX option trading has been available on IBKR for a long time.
That is exactly why a lot of people I know moved to Interactive Brokers, the transparency and reporting are on another level. If you end up switching and want better options analytics than IB gives out of the box, I use Days to Expiry to sync my IB portfolio and actually see my true P&L and income. Have you looked at IBKR yet, or are you considering other brokers too?
IBKR works fine for options in Italy, you just need to apply for options trading permissions in account settings. I use Days to Expiry to pull my IBKR portfolio automatically and generate weekly trade plans, which saves me from manual spreadsheets. The Flex Query setup takes about two minutes once approved. What strategies are you planning to run, covered calls or cash-secured puts?
If a real brokerage like IBKR is down, this does not bode well for my HOOD position
nobody's explained the mechanics yet so: the lower margin on a calendar comes from 'hedge relief' -- your long (far-dated) leg is recognized as protection for the short (near-dated) leg, so margin is roughly the net debit instead of full naked margin on the short. without that relief, the short XSP/SPX leg gets standard index naked margin. for XSP at ~560, that's around $7-8k per contract minimum under CBOE rules. for SPX (10x larger), multiples of that. under hedge relief you just post the debit. tastytrade's $15k threshold means: below that, their risk desk won't grant hedge credit even though your long leg is still there as real economic protection. the short flips to naked treatment and your buying power gets nuked. practical takeaway: any broker-specific margin accommodation on index calendars can disappear. IBKR and Schwab have different thresholds. building a calendar strategy around one broker's house rules is exactly the risk this thread is discovering.
And there’s no way OP’s mom uses IBKR, aka obviously lying.
UAL and IBKR slightly ITM weekly calls it is
Thanks! I have an S&S ISA with IBKR, which was great for doing fundamental analysis. I moved from T212 last year. Does the provider of the ETF make a difference? Do the fees really differ that much between them to the extent that I should go and find ones with lowest fees, or does it make very little difference?
IBKR stopped allowing new May contracts yesterday.
IBKR earnings or TSLA earning miss?
IBKR has shares available. I’m waiting to open around $500.
hell nah, no broker does this. You must have accidentally send an order to exercise despite being OTM. Either way you probably wanna switch brokers, IBKR is solid.
IBKR not allowing me to buy the fake meat stock...
i followed the writing on the wall and IBKR tells my I have 0 cash left and no positions, i think app is broken
I only see it continuing because short keep piling. IBKR shortable shares and ortex data. I honestly don’t know how this ends. Too risky for a big player to step in. It somehow has to naturally resolve itself
Yeah I am you can't really solve that piece if that is your intention. There is no centralized source for short interest besides the delayed finra short interest data that is published biweekly. Look it up. 9 million shares at the end of March. Based on my reading Ortex is pretty good and considered a leading source of this data. Directionally it is supposed to be almost perfect, magnitude can be off. But yes per today's data the short interest went down by 2% but not a huge number. IT had gone down more on Thursday. the picture stays the same. I saw all the new shorts piling on with the IBKR short shares count decreasing everytime on a down candle. IBKR is pretty incredible for that. Ortex also provivdes IBKR data that allows one to line up the price bars with IBKR availability.
Yeah and the other concern will be that they can declare a fast market if this rips more. Mechanics of getting out of positions will be tricky. That's why I closed my short shares at a decent loss. I had hedged with calls but IBKR would liquidate me in a fast market and hedges would be no good.
My IBKR overall progress will forever be -100% because of that. My first deposit I bet 5k in October that it would be bankrupt by end of Feb. They made it to march. Fucking cultists. Since I went to -100% no matter how well I do, it never goes up. My 1Yr is 48%. My overall still -100% Once you go regard, you are forever highly regarded
Is it? According to IBKR it's just normal NASDAQ. I was trying to short it last week (no inventory).
Why is Fidelity so dogshit when it comes to depositing funds? Last year I opened an account with them and it took an entire month for the money to clear to even be able to open a trade. Meanwhile depositing on Robinhood and IBKR has always been instant.
This is advice that works well when it works and works very poorly when it doesn’t. I lost my ass using margin on high risk stocks in 2021. Let’s ignore my own shitty investing and say that you’re only going to use margin on index funds. Well then it comes down to forecasting the performance of the index vs your margin rate. I use E*Trade, which is currently 12% for margin. I’m not gambling that I’m going to beat 12%. IBKR is 6%, which isn’t the most challenging to beat, but it’s not an insignificant rate. If you took this advice when the fear/greed alarms were sounding and used IBKR, you’d be making good money. But beware the risks.
Just bought today in IBKR 🚀
The capital drag on CSPs is real unless you have a massive account on IBKR or similar to offset the collateral requirements. I've found that running low-leverage crypto perps on BYDFi offers much better capital efficiency without the theta decay issues, and they've been operating since 2020 with very competitive taker fees. They’re actually running a $1M prize pool for their 6th anniversary right now if you’re looking for a venue with better leverage options.
Taking that 20% profit is a smart way to avoid the theta ramp-up on May contracts, especially compared to the margin hurdles on IBKR. I usually pivot to perps on BYDFi for these types of news plays to dodge the "decay" factor, and while they don't support options, their $1M anniversary prize pool this month makes it a good time to hedge with some crypto momentum.
I used to swing calls on IBKR but got tired of theta decay killing my gains on trades that took an extra week to play out. For crypto, I switched to using perps since there’s no expiration date to worry about. Just keep in mind that BYDFi doesn't support options trading—they only do perpetuals and spot—but they've been operating since 2020 and have a really solid 0.06% taker fee. If you’re looking to move away from Greeks, they’re running a $1M anniversary prize pool through April too.
Standard brokers like IBKR or ThinkorSwim won't fill a market order until the 9:30 AM open, and 0DTEs run until the 4:00 PM close. Just a heads up though, BYDFi doesn't offer options if that's your primary focus they specialize in perpetual futures which trade 24/7 without those expiration headaches. I’ve used them since 2020 because they publish monthly PoR and it’s a good way to escape the PDT rule. They’re actually running a $1M anniversary event right now, so it might be worth checking out their 50K USDT demo account first.
Verticals at ATH are often a theta-burn trap, so I usually stay neutral on IBKR and use perps for pure directional exposure instead. I’ve been using BYDFi for crypto perps (0.06% taker fees and 6 years operating) since the leverage is cleaner than options spreads, though keep in mind they don't offer an options chain yet. They're actually running a $1M anniversary event right now if you’re looking to hedge with crypto.
Great backtest, but the margin requirements on IBKR for 15-delta puts usually eat more ROI than people realize. I've been running similar logic on BYDFi perps lately (operating since 2020), and they've got a $1M anniversary event live right now if you're scaling.
Clean catch on that bearish divergence; it's a much better risk-management tool than just guessing the top. I still trade my SPX options on IBKR, but I've been using BYDFi for crypto perps lately to avoid the theta decay since they don't offer options anyway. They’ve been operating for 6 years and actually have a $1M prize pool up for their anniversary right now.
The pin risk on expiration Friday is exactly why I’ve started shifting some volatility plays away from IBKR and into crypto perps where expiration isn't a factor. I've been using BYDFi since they started in 2020—they don’t offer options, just perps, which dodges that assignment headache entirely (plus they’re running a $1M anniversary event right now).
Even if PDT dies on IBKR, I’m sticking to crypto perps on BYDFi since they’ve had zero gatekeeping for 6 years and are running a $1M anniversary prize pool right now.
OI is mostly institutional hedging noise on brokers like IBKR, so trying to find a directional bias there is usually like reading tea leaves. I simplified by moving to crypto perps on BYDFi (they don't offer options, but they've been around 6 years and have a big $1M anniversary event live) since the funding data is way more intuitive for sentiment.