Wow! Reconfirms my trust in IB big time.

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Not how markets and trading should work.

You make a trade, you live and die with it.

Pa Dax 

Wow! Reconfirms my trust in IB big time. Sent using the NexusFi mobile app

Here it's the full article: https://archive.is/EGIGB

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/oil-crash-busted-a-broker-s-computers-and-inflicted-huge-losses

GREAT NEWS!

tradalert 

Here it's the full article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/oil-crash-busted-a-broker-s-computers-and-inflicted-huge-losses

WOW!

Then came what looked like the deal of a lifetime: buying 212 futures contracts on West Texas Intermediate for an astonishing penny each.

...

At midnight, Shah got the devastating news: he owed Interactive Brokers $9 million. He’d started the day with $77,000 in his account.

How is a guy with $77,000 in his account allowed to buy 212 futures contracts, approximate overnight margin requirement of $2.1 Million? That's day trading margins of 27+:1.

SMCJB 

WOW! Then came what looked like the deal of a lifetime: buying 212 futures contracts on West Texas Intermediate for an astonishing penny each. ... At midnight, Shah got the devastating news: he owed Interactive Brokers $9 million. He’d started the day with $77,000 in his account. How is a guy with $77,000 in his account allowed to buy 212 futures contracts, approximate overnight margin requirement of $2.1 Million? That's day trading margins of 27+:1.

IB only asked for $30 margin per contract. That was the biggest mistake. There are people in even more unbelivable numbers

SunTrader 

Not how markets and trading should work. You make a trade, you live and die with it.

Not, when you can't exit... The moment I would have seen a minus bid of 1 CT.. I would have killed the trade in a heartbeat.. But.... I couldn't... System didn't let me...

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bassa 

Not, when you can't exit... The moment I would have seen a minus bid of 1 CT.. I would have killed the trade in a heartbeat.. But.... I couldn't... System didn't let me... Sent using the NexusFi mobile app

You mean not when you waited till it was too late. CME clearly gave notice - which I guess broker couldn't deal with. But it is our job to be informed about changes and having a backup plan in place.

Where did you get long?

But do you really every single day before you start trading, check the whole internet, whether there is some status update on the contract... And btw cme had on their own website stated that there was a low limit of 0.01and no high limit... They even still had it a week after the event.. Recently they took the whole column out


Strange, can't upload an image of their website, so you can see.. Cme had the wrong info on their own product

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dk66hhMW2N8S6Okh7Bs3is8aid6UVgcK/view?usp=drivesdk


Also look at the update time in the picture.


May 1st 2020.. . That's like 10 days after the event... So at some point you have to deal with the info you are getting (in this case the exchange itself!!)

Speaking of things disappearing - what happened to this reply:

"No. I went long @ 20.01 cet... And at 20.09 it went subzero... Couldn't exit... Just to get settles at 20. 30."

that I got in an forum post email alert but don't see here now?

Anyway glad you were reimbursed. That is what is most important.

PS can't tell what that blurry google drive image shows.

bassa 

on their own website stated that there was a low limit of 0.01and no high limit... They even still had it a week after the event.. Recently they took the whole column out Cme had the wrong info on their own product

Thanks for the CME photo, that is good evidence of their culpability. Were you with Interactive Brokers or another FCM?