Interactive Brokers: which profile do you have Retail or Professional?

[Rac]

From what I can see in this post

Professional trader status on IB

I have just opened a new account with IB and it seems that I can only trade US ETFs if I upgrade my status to “professional trader”. The conditions for the upgrade are quite tough but supposing that I can work around them and qualify, my question would be: how would my income be taxed after that? Will I be taxed my the Swiss gov. as an professional trader? If the question to the above question is yes then I’ll just use my new IB account to convert CHF to USD bcz their rate is awesome and feed …

Chris was given exactly the same bogus answer that I got: “to trade US ETFs it is necessary to upgrade the status to Professional”.

This is not true, not even after Brexit.
So if you receive the same answer from IB support people, don’t fall into the trap and look for another way of solving the issue without upgrading your profile to “professional” trader