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Published in TZ Latest News 25 May, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Improve the Interactive Brokers margin system.

Hi

As I said before I am new in the world of trading. I opened an Interactive Broker account two molths ago.
I would like to explain what happened this week.

I have an option position in Spy that the maximum risk for my account is 40,00 per contract.
It is a multiple leg position, almost totally hedged. But IB takes a margin of 4.000,00 from my account.
And this is because the IB Margin System, or their algorithms, doesn’t recognize that position, yes, one of the best Brokers, if not the…

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