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Strategies & Market Trends : Systems, Strategies and Resources for Trading Futures -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Atin who wrote (41709)	12/4/2000 12:40:11 PM
From: OX	Respond to of 44573

everyone starts out as a "dummy" I was hoping my sons would be born w/ futures trading in their DNA, but ...

To: Atin who wrote (41709)	12/4/2000 1:01:01 PM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44573

Atin .... as OX said, the margin/maint is set independently of the current trading price of the underlying index .... however, the m/m amount required Can and Will change if and when the index moves up a great deal in trading price... case in point ... the Naz futures have moved upward by a sizeable sum and back down 50percent this past 18 months ... as I don't actively trade them, I've not kept up with the exact amount of m/m required but I do recall several emails from IB (raising) the margin amounts for their emini... the m/m has gone up once or twice since I've been trading the esmini with IB .... it is NOT done capriciously, but it is done fairly quickly so it is not a bad idea to have somewhat more in the account than the minimum required to keep from being sold out at an unadvantageous price.... Nemer