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i have just sent all nessecary documents for opening a new account to td ameritrade (because i want to use thinkorswim for some reasons) and then i found this on the net.
Never had a problem. I have 2 of my own accounts and a client account.
They will liquidate your position if you do not meet the margin requirements.
This goes without saying for any broker.
I believe you will it find nearly impossible to find a broker without at least one ticked off customer who has gone to the regulators over some matter. If I saw many instances of such behavior, though, I might avoid that firm.
if the margin call is not about to spill into the negative in a hurry, we call and email to warn the customer.
Last resort is liquidation. Some Margin calls occur because of an honest error.
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TDA does that as well. I received a margin call early on.
They gave me a call in the morning and said they'll let it roll
for a few days even though I had insufficient funds. They also sent an email out to remind me.
If it gets out of hand they will cut it but for the time being I was okay.
I ended up having to close it a few days later anyways.
That is good. Such courtesy allows you to examine your positions, and see what you need to take off.
Matt
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Most of the comments on that webpage are complaints from customers who were margin called probably
due to overleveraged bad trading.
But that recent update "proving" cover up seems troubling. I thought TOS being acquired by TDA would bring more security to the customer. I was planning to close my old TOS account and just start a new TDA account as TDA still keeps TOS accounts keyed to the old TOS id. TDA has been around a long while. They also had acquired Kennedy&Cable ->Waterhouse and all the accounts that went with it.
A limitation I came across: Ninjatrader multibroker version won't work with original TOS accounts (pre-merger) but will work with TDA accounts using the (after merger) TOS platform id/password. Seems to be some unfixed issue that tech support told me.
as i havent read a lot of bad reviews about td ameritrade, good to hear that there are satisfied customers.
of course a margin call is mostly self imposed, so the complaints about that dont count for me.
what really shocked me is: ThinkorSwim opened new, short VIX (Volatility index) option positions in the customer’s accounts.
as i always keep an eye on the statements i get from my broker, td ameritrade will not be an exception and solves this issue for me being a customer of td ameritrade soon.
