Interactive Brokers - scam or not?

former trader wrote:
^ Just make sure you don’t have to deal with their call center.
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They must be raging pricks because I’ve heard this from everyone. So far I’ve just use the online chat and msg support, it’s been really great with fast detailed answers. Perhaps it’s some guy in India.
 
But they do send you an email after any correspondence asking about your experience.
They do rock. Execution tops, securities and derivatives. Margin rates, nobody lower. They’ll even split lending fees if you have a margin account. They’ll chase down a borrow. You can elect Portfolio Margin. I once was at 4x, march 09. Yeah, customer service isn’t the best, but i’m not willing to pay more for improvement.
And they simply don’t transact in many mutual funds. If you’re doing an ACATS, you might want liquidate your funds before transfer or prepare for rejection.
Hell, you can even have negative commission for providing liquidity.
Why am i giving them a testominial for free……
 
Are you guys signed up for any extra data? It’s somewhat confusing given all the available options. I’m thinking about…

Reuters fundamentals $7 - absolutely need to have financials and ratios, hopefully it integrates into TWS nicely.

Bond quotes $1, CUSIP $1, Moody’s ratings $1 - since I buy some fixed income seems like I need these three. But a little confused, are bond quotes and cusip service the same thing?

London and Tokyo exchange equity prices, might be useful.
 
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