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Strategies & Market Trends : BEFRIEND THE TREND Short-term Options Trading Thread

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To: wilywilly who wrote (3869)	8/4/2003 9:46:15 PM
From: Dan Duchardt	of 4058

is it true that 1 contract of an NQ at IB is always $1125, regardless of the futures price? No, it is not true. $1125 is the intraday "margin" after 9:30 to open an NQ contract. To keep it open you need to have $900, but those numbers both change at about 3:45 ET to twice those amounts. Does it ever change? Also, what does a contract of SSFs cost? The full amount is set periodically by CME and is related to the price of a contract and the volatility. I believe SSFs are margined at 20% of the contract value, and there is no reduced margin for daytrading.

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