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Why does IG not offer portfolio margining for professional investors/traders?  E.g. if one buys an option spread, IG seems to margin both legs individually without taking into account the aggegate risk offset that the second option provides.  I tried to ask this on chat with them and they just cut me off.

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It's blindly obvious that the risk is the width of the spread, be it credit or debit spread - yet they margin short leg as if it was naked short - that brings me to the conclusion that IG simply don't want their clients to trade option spreads!

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