IIRC Interactive Brokers isn’t going to let you lever up more than about 2:1, though if you have ‘separate’ personal and altruistic accounts you can potentially lever your altruistic side higher. e.g. if you have 50k in personal accounts and 50k in altruistic accounts, you can get 100k in margin, allowing you to lever up the altruistic side 3:1.
Lazy people can access mild leverage (1.5:1) through NTSX for low fees. Many brokerages don’t grant access to the more extreme 3:1 ETFs.
Interactive Brokers allows much higher leverage for accounts with portfolio margin enabled, e.g. greater than 6:1. That requires options trading permissions, in turn requiring some combination of options experience and an online (easy) test.
I would be more worried about people blowing up their life savings with ill-considered extreme leverage strategies and the broader fallout of that.
IIRC Interactive Brokers isn’t going to let you lever up more than about 2:1, though if you have ‘separate’ personal and altruistic accounts you can potentially lever your altruistic side higher. e.g. if you have 50k in personal accounts and 50k in altruistic accounts, you can get 100k in margin, allowing you to lever up the altruistic side 3:1.
Lazy people can access mild leverage (1.5:1) through NTSX for low fees. Many brokerages don’t grant access to the more extreme 3:1 ETFs.
Interactive Brokers allows much higher leverage for accounts with portfolio margin enabled, e.g. greater than 6:1. That requires options trading permissions, in turn requiring some combination of options experience and an online (easy) test.
I would be more worried about people blowing up their life savings with ill-considered extreme leverage strategies and the broader fallout of that.