Why was I required to say I've made over 100 stock trades

>>1347556
None. It is to make sure you don't harass their customer service with noobz questions and to make sure that you declare that you are a seasoned investor who understand what risks he gets into (legally useful)

>>1347599
Why does "seasoned investor" have to mean "has donated over $1000 in commissions."

My plan with interactive brokers is to put money into leveraged bonds once every 2 months, and hold them until maturity.

It will take me over a decade to make 100 bond trades using this approach, but does that mean it's not a sound strategy or good investment experience? Why does only actually flipping securities count as investment experience, what about the time I spend going over financials?

You know IB charges an additional fee if you're not making a bunch of trades per month, right? IB is for day traders and big boys. Not whatever weird hiki neet shit you have dreamed up.

>>1347621
It charges 10 dollars a month. Their low margin interest rates more than make up for that.

At one time I was thinking of trading e-mini s&p 500 on IB. Then I came to my senses!

>>1347661
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with e mini, it's just that people tend to go into it with the maximum leverage of 20:1 because they're fucking stupid.