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Strategies & Market Trends : The Final Frontier - Online Remote Trading -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TFF who wrote (10404)	7/24/2002 6:32:02 PM
From: Dan Duchardt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12617

20% is only slightly better than the 25% margin required for daytrading, so unless you want to hold them overnight what is the attraction? No uptick rule to worry about to short them, but other than that there is no great advantage. Of course they could wander away from fair value, which happens a lot with the Dow $2 and $5 contracts, but that will make them riskier than buying and selling the underlying itself. Ya gotta wonder if these things will ever have sufficient liquidity to attract traders.