Huge Fees on IBKR?

Sven

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Hey everyone.

Yesterday I wanted to buy VT for almost 270.000 USD and after reading this article, I of course changed my pricing to Fixed. To my chock i saw that I would need 2783 more USD to my balance to cover the fees! 2783 USD! That’s more than 1 % of Fees! Am I doing something wrong or why is IBKR charging so much in fees?

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That's really weird, the fees should be a fraction of that.

Can you click on Preview? That way we should see the details of the fees.
Do you have other pending orders?
 
Hey everyone.

Yesterday I wanted to buy VT for almost 270.000 USD and after reading this article, I of course changed my pricing to Fixed. To my chock i saw that I would need 2783 more USD to my balance to cover the fees! 2783 USD! That’s more than 1 % of Fees! Am I doing something wrong or why is IBKR charging so much in fees?
I have had a situation with a cash account that I was not allowed to buy for the whole cash. I wasn't curious enough to ask IB why it was that way. I simply reduced the number of shares to buy. The difference was not the fees. This problem shouldn't appear with a margin account.
 
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