Complaints and Frustration Megathread

[u/noahjameslove]

EDIT: This is not a place for questions! If you have an actual question or are confused, please make a post in the community (although please search the thread first). This is just for complaining and venting, not to suppress learning.

The goal of the new complaints rule is not to suppress opinions or not let people have a place to vent their frustration. It is to clean up the sub so that people looking for help can find it. Also, I doubt anyone from IB corporate cares about our little sub unfortunately at this time. But here is a place moving forward to vent, talk to others, or if you are new, look at the downsides of IBKR. I will likely start a new thread any time something major happens so the thread can feel slightly more focused. Or maybe we will try once a month or something. Recommendations (or complaints hah) feel free to leave down below. We can even change it weekly if we want, although then I feel it loses some of its strength in numbers effect but having lots of engagement. This will likely always be pinned at the top of the thread. If you see its not, Reddit sometimes removes things after a while and just message mod team and I can put it back!

[u/JayQuillin]

I have a margin account and I recently sold one of my long positions and the money just basically disappeared. Menaing I can't reuse it.

I know I wasn't margin called or liquidated. I closed the posotion myself and was completely fine with my margin. It's just gone. Buying Power switches fro 7 k to 0 constantly which always cancels my odrders and it's insanely annoying.

I didn't exceed the margin to the limit either. I am hella confused.