Can I trade futures/commodities with an IB Canada cash account?

Cash accounts typically do not have margin requirements in the same way margin accounts do. However, margin requirements are sometimes displayed in cash accounts for several reasons:

1. Options and Commodities Trading: Margin requirements are shown for clients who may want to trade options or commodities, even in a cash account. If you only plan to purchase stocks (paid in full) in a cash account, you can ignore these margin requirements…

For securities, margin is the amount of cash a client borrows against marginable securities in the account. For commodities including futures and futures options, margin is the amount of cash a client must put up as collateral to support an open futures contract in the account…

Dividend Reinvestment is available to IB LLC, IB AU, IB CAN, IB HK, IB IE, IB JP, IB SG and IB UK clients only.

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Clients of IB Canada are eligible to trade futures through IBKR.

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