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.
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.