


-2 SSO 40.0 Put, $0.50 ITM after selling for $3.90 and current trading higher.I have the following option positions in this account with the amount in-the-money (ITM) or out-of-the-money (OTM) following each one based on the prices as I wrote this. For a few minutes I debated letting the day play out with the expectation the market would grow out of it today, but didn’t want to take the risk of AMTD forcing a closing of any of my options tomorrow. The timing was perfect as it hit on the morning of the latest rally to start. TD Ameritrade may forcibly liquidate all or part of your account without prior notice, regardless of your intent to satisfy a margin call, in order to protect your interests or ours.

Maintenance calls may be met by depositing funds, selling stock, or depositing securities. The rest of the platform isn’t of much use for me since I really prefer Interactive Brokers’ (IKBR) system more and do my trading there.Īnyway, as I opened my account on the way to Trade Architect I saw this alert:Ī maintenance call is issued when your account value drops below our maintenance requirements due to changes in the market value of a security or when you exceed your buying power. I opened the account today to get to their Trade Architect platform which lets me watch and listen to CNBC during the day at my computer. I had not been paying attention to my TD Ameritrade (AMTD) Account with respect to margin requirements because I wasn’t expecting it to come into play yet, but also because I knew liquidating wouldn’t be a problem if/when that day came.
