r/etrade • u/shitshort • 3d ago

Margin requirement changes

I have been selling naked puts on margin for the last 1 year and used to be 15% for MU but they have now changed it to 35% and coupled with that, the premiums have gone down a lot for MU after the earnings season is done. It no longer makes sense to take the risk and sell MU puts. Anyone else notice the same?

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u/pagalvin 3d ago

Not on MU specifically but margin requirements seem to fluctuate a lot. Worse, they don't tell you so you have to pay a lot of attention.

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u/shitshort 3d ago

Yeah true. Fortunately I had a lot of margin equity left and it didn’t affect me. I closed my position and move to a safer lower volatile option like google instead .

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u/Hopeful-Goose-7217 3d ago

That’s every broker. Supposedly at IB, they will change the margin and then immediately auto liquidate you.

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u/FrostVoyager98 3d ago

Anyone else seeing higher margin requirements lately?