[Full time trader]

I just wanted to add given many people have lost jobs due to lockdowns and resorted to SB trading full time and the industry sells SB product as tax-free to the public. therefore profits from SB are never declared during self-assessments.

The way i understand is if you do not have any other means of income other than trading AND you are winning substantial sums of money from spread betting, then you could be potentially/technically taxed on profits from spread betting. I say technically/potentially because when those large transactions leave a paper trail and get flagged up, "if" they decide to investigate its very easy to be singled out from the crowd. They could argue than your SB has become the main source of income or even act as insurance against your trades in shares account or cfd by using SB and therefore all should be treated equally for tax purposes. 

ofcourse none of it may matter because hmrc may not care or have the manpower to go after small fishes in the pond. 

[Market Value Currency Choice + Watchlist Total Return]

Hi, have you tried this and is not what you seek? 

[Millions in the Hole]

if your pockets are deep, then hang in there as it does not seems gone away too far away. investigate to sell options below 1.218

[Displaying different account dashboards at the same time]

yes my SB, CFD, Share deal etc are all under same IG account (UK) and i use a windows laptop.  i cant think why it could be different for yourselves (or for me)

[Displaying different account dashboards at the same time]

so i use microsoft edge and google chrome side by side without any issues you mentioned. 

[Displaying different account dashboards at the same time]

open the second account in another browser or a new instance of browser perhaps.

[IG stops buying on lumber]

snookered. or maybe due to lack of liquidity

[Trading an Iron Condor]

afaik, ig will not charge spread as well if you hold all the way to expiry. the only problem is you have to open each of them separately and lose bit of precision with the underlying price and strike prices moving all the time on either side of call/put. which means if you close early you'd have to close the separately too.

Also there may be a catch of 30 second (or some time) limit in some markets, with the amount of buying and selling you could place. 

[non-professional account went sub-zero; then bank transfer request was cancelled to cover sub-zero losses. is that OK? what about negative balance protections]

i can imagine what you are going through as i myself had a 25K loss couple of months back due to bad management. its very easy for the mind to be clouded. 

we do know that the withdrawal process is not instant and could take 1-2 business days. also you could have moved part of your the funds to your shares dealing account (or even CFD) from the SB account to keep it safe temporarily from exposure from existing positions. 

[Price lower in different accounts?]

how did you manage to buy those shares in 2 different accounts synced to the same instant. i would imagine the price to change if not. Under the statements, the Past activity report may help with the investigation. i cant think of anything else.

[Position closed at Price way over]

I sold a Daily 31340 Put on the Dow and let the system buy it back at the close of day. How is it possible it was bought back at 164 when the actual close at 138?

[PRT V11 manuals]

I have not checked today but within PRT under the Help menu itself you would find directions/links to all the help manuals for the version currently running

[Share Trade History CSV file]

The page does look updated but i find the download is still there.

[If you use tight stops is negative slippage a big problem]

i dont think spread is a component that sticks to every trade, that a new idea for me. the bid/ask at the time of closing will apply, unlucky if it widens like out of hours etc.

i don't think the big banks etc cares about fairness for us retailers in trading. looking at ways with their HFT and running stops and what not to reduce burden and fill their coffers in every possible way

[If you use tight stops is negative slippage a big problem]

Depends on the instrument, for example Dow can move wildly anywhere around 50 points within few seconds especially around the open/close hours. Once i moved SL to +3.5 pts for breakeven but ended up with -2.5pts loss. now i add atleast 5pts extra for slippages.

[Features you want added to IG]

I don't know if anybody uses alerts effectively as they seem bit rudimentary; i cant find a way to modify an existing alert or temporarily disable them. copying a watchlist in between SB, CFD account rather than adding from scratch.

Also in PRT (out of syllabus), i wish there was a way to see how much margin is required for the quantity entered similar to web platform.