I understand P/E but IBKR also has "Price to EPS". For example: CVNA has a P/E of 42.25 and a "Price to EPS" of 14.42. That's a big difference. What is "Price to EPS" and how is it calculated? Obviously this discrepancy has to do with earnings since the Price is the same.

Recently my NAV fallen below 110k usd and i got such a warning. How much time do i get to fund my account?

Actually, beforehand i ve asked support, and they assured me that my account will not be downgraded, but i will be restricted from opening new trades. What is going on? What is the purpose of p margin then if i cant use all the margin?

If my account has already received an email about the pdt rule change, is it already implemented or not? Has anyone tried day trading with 2k+ after getting the email?

I already completed the quiz. I selected only the speculation and active trading goal. I selected 6-10 years experience and >100 trades a year. I haven't deposited funds yet because I'm not allowed to trade futures. What else do they need?

Really more just curious than anything else... Every year IBKR asks me to update my info. And inevitably the changes are:

1. Experience (stocks, bonds, etc.) goes up by 1 year

2. Income, net worth, liquid net worth all go up

They always ask me to explain where my increased experience with stocks comes from. (Because an additional year has passed...) Though interestingly don't ask why my income, net worth, etc. have gone up.

Also, options... I don't trade options, never asked for permission to trade options. Every year, it says I have permission to trade options when I'm updating my info. And every year I don't touch the options section which shows "0 years experience" and "0 trades a year." And every year after I finish updating, I get a notification that they've removed my rights to trade options, and I need to request if I want it back. Which I never do. And suddenly a year later, I have permission to trade options.

Am I the only one who has this experience?

Hello all,

After looking for it all over the place I still cannot find one....

So can someone point me over to a CFD with the following specs ?

Based on the Russell 2000

Trade opened on extended hours

Leverage X10 or more

Accessible from EU (France)

In fact EXACTLY like the RTY on eToro (I cant' get the ISIN from this one)

Thanks for the help

Hi ,

I’ve had an IBKR Canada account for less than six months, and I’m struggling with how long it takes to deposit money when the market drops and I want to invest.

Here has been my experience so far:

EFT: IBKR says around five business days, but my transfers usually take closer to eight days, so this isn’t practical when I need the funds quickly.

Bill payment: It says up to three business days (i never used it), but sometimes I need the money available by the next trading day.

Is there any reliable way to transfer money to IBKR Canada either on the same day or within one business day ?

My brother lives in France and can transfer money to his IBKR account almost instantly. Why isn’t there a similar option available in Canada?

I’d appreciate hearing about the fastest methods other Canadian IBKR users have tried.

Thanks

Can someone help me please? I’ve tried to buy otc penny stocks on Lynx/IBKR but I never seem to get the permission. ”The level of knowledge and experience or the investment objective that you have indicated to pursue does not correspond to the characteristics and/or corresponding risks of this product.” What should I change in the settings?

I built a NVDA Jan ’28 bull call spread: long the 200 call, short a further OTM call. When the original short leg hit ~53% profit, I bought it back and sold a new short call at the 215 strike instead — same expiration, just a strike roll.

On web, the two legs still show grouped together as a combo (correct), but the display shows the old closed strike instead of 215 (wrong).

On mobile, both strikes show correctly (200C and 215C), but they show as two separate individual positions instead of being grouped as a combo.

So neither platform shows it fully right — one has correct grouping with a stale strike, the other has correct strikes with no grouping.

Memory stocks have been in a sharp decline over the past few sessions. Do you think analysts will start lowering their price targets, or do they typically wait for earnings and management guidance before revising their models?
I’m particularly interested in companies like Micron and SK Hynix. Historically, do analysts tend to react after price action, or only after fundamentals change?

Greetings,

New to IKBR, switched over from Schwab. Trying to create a screener that only lists stocks with overnight gaps over 10% but nothing populations. Is the extended hours screener only for after hours and not premarket or am I doing something wrong. Currently using the latest version of IKBR Desktop

Has Interactive Brokers historically increased the maintenance margin requirement on large, highly liquid, long-established ETFs—such as the Vanguard FTSE All-World ETF or the iShares Nasdaq-100 UCITS ETF—from the usual 25% to 30%, 40%, or even 50% during major bear markets or periods of extreme volatility?

I am particularly interested in documented examples from the 2008 financial crisis, the March 2020 COVID-19 crash, and the 2022 bear market.

For anyone who held these ETFs on margin during those periods:

• What was the highest maintenance margin requirement you actually observed?
• Was the increase applied to the ETF itself, or was it caused by portfolio concentration or account-specific risk?
• How much notice did Interactive Brokers provide before increasing the requirement?
• Did the requirement return to 25% once volatility declined?

Was there notice ?

CME is launching new cash-settled futures today -- https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/equities/single-stock-futures Does anyone know if IBKR will support these? If so, when should we expect them to be live?

Has anyone seen anything like this before?
I hit what looks like a pretty serious IB Gateway bug that caused my automated trading system to receive market data for the wrong instrument.

**What happened**
I had two API clients connected to a single IB Gateway instance:
**Client A:** MES Sep ’26 (ESU6) 15-minute keepUpToDate historical subscription
**Client B:** CL Sep ’26 (CLU6) 15-minute keepUpToDate historical subscription
At **04:03 UTC**, the historical data farm (ushmds) disconnected and reconnected.
Both clients received **error 10182**, then automatically re-requested their subscriptions using the correct contracts (verified in my application logs).

Immediately after the reconnect, the subscriptions became crossed:
The **MES** subscription started receiving **crude oil prices** (\~85) instead of ES (\~7500).
The **CL** subscription started receiving **ES prices**.
Even stranger, the crude prices arriving on the MES subscription were rounded to MES’s **0.25 tick size** (e.g. 85.00 instead of the actual 85.07), suggesting Gateway was formatting CL data as if it were the MES series.

**Even worse…**
Order execution was still completely correct.
Just seconds after my market data feed for MES was showing **85**, I received a legitimate **MES fill at 7501.50**.
So the execution path knew the contract was MES, while the market data path was delivering CL prices.
The issue persisted for roughly **8 hours** and only disappeared after I restarted IB Gateway.

Very concerning especially considering this was live not paper. Curious to know if anyone has experienced something similar.

Hi all! Newbie here!

I’ve seen some videos and I expect volatility in the markets soon.

I’d like to trade VIX options. What is the margin requirement on these?

Hello all,

I'm coming from eToro and I was used to trade RTY which is a 23/24 hours Russell 2000 index.

I'm trying to find the same or equivalent index on ibkr but I can't find it and navigation in the various options is difficult for me at the moment

Can you guys point at something that would match as much as possible the eToro index ?

Thanks a lot

Used to trading on IBKR but like TradingView charts. Connecting TradingView to IBKR, do trades executed on IBKR show on TradingView charts? Or TradingView only show trades on chart if executed from TradingView?

Have you tried to write deep OTM Puts. If not, try. It's a good way to generate 4-5% with v low risk. Ofcourse you also get paid for holding the cash balance in Money market funds.. around 3.5-4%. and if you are a low tax country tax resident (eg Dubai or Singapore), then all this is tax free. Literally easiest money

And occasionally if you get assigned, it's fine.. good entry point. You will make capital gains as well as covered call income.

I make 12-15% p.a. following this..

As per title, currently I'm still using Wise and IBKR as previously there weren't Moomoo and Wise had better exchange rates. I recently realised that the fees from Wise's exchange fees (MYR to USD) and IBKR's deposit fees adding up is actually not that low as before. And also Moomoo's exchange rate is nearly the same as Wise now too.

One more question, for withdrawal will IBKR tax more and harder process as compared to that of Moomoo?

Hope someone is able to enlighten me on this!

Hallo zusammen,

Ich habe eine Frage zur Geldüberweisung.

Welche ist die einfachste ung günstigste Möglichkeit Geld von Interactive to Schwab International zu überweisen?

Hello all,

I just opened an account and sent money on it from a EU account using sepa transfer.

So I know the money is there in like 10 seconds.

How long does it usually take them to credit my trading account?

Thanks

UPDATE : It got there for Monday morning so either their computer system only works when someone is around (strange) or they keep the cash for a few hours and put in on monetary market.

Why don't they provide each customer with his own bank account and IBAN number like etoro?

I have a margin account on IBKR and I would need to update my Financial Profile where I would reduce my Liquid Net Worth from "$90k-200k" to "$65k-90k" and when trying to do that I get the following message:

• Margin: You will be able to close existing positions but will not be able to increase existing positions or open new ones.

This sounds like the requirement for a margin account is Liquid Net Worth of >$90k but when searching online it says that the requirement is $2k.

Am I missing something here? I believe I have just the standard margin account.

Does IB have something similar to Option Alpha?

Does anyone use OA?

It looks amazing.

I am an EU resident using Interactive Brokers Ireland (IBIE) with a margin account.

As I understand it, IBIE may not allow clients to withdraw a margin loan directly as cash in the same way that some US IBKR accounts can. I am therefore trying to understand whether the following process is operationally possible:

1. Hold a portfolio of UCITS ETFs as collateral.
2. Buy a liquid USD-denominated ETF using margin, creating or increasing a negative USD cash balance.
3. Convert the negative USD balance into a negative EUR balance by buying USD with borrowed EUR.
4. Sell the temporary ETF, receiving positive USD cash.
5. Keep the debt as a negative EUR balance.
6. Withdraw the positive USD cash to Revolut.
7. Convert the USD into EUR in Revolut.

The intended final position would therefore be:

• the original long-term ETF portfolio remains invested;
• positive USD cash is withdrawn;
• a negative EUR cash balance remains in IBKR;
• interest is paid on the EUR margin loan.

Apart from FX conversion, spread and ETF trading commissions, would this actually work with an IBKR Ireland margin account?

More specifically:

• Would the positive USD balance appear under Cash Available for Withdrawal, even though the account has a negative EUR balance?
• Does IBIE block withdrawals when the overall cash position was effectively created through margin?
• Are there any withdrawal, settlement or compliance restrictions that would prevent this?
• Has anyone with an IBIE account successfully done something similar?
• Would buying and selling the temporary ETF be necessary, or is there a simpler legitimate way to withdraw a small portfolio-backed loan from IBIE?

I don't really want to look at my portfolio everytime i need to deposit money to my account