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billyboy77

Registered: Mar 2011
Posts: 2

03-18-12 10:00 PM

I mostly trade US treasury yield curve spreads (fits, nobs, etc). I would lease an AM seat at the CBOT. Anyone have an idea as to what a place like advantage or Crossland would require in my account if I wanted to trade as many as 180 fits or 100 nobs intraday? I wouldn't be carrying positions overnight. Thanks for any help.

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FroggerMan

Registered: Aug 2010
Posts: 140

03-28-12 05:35 PM

Give them a call. Usually you can trade up to 4 times or more of the maintenance margin with these firms.

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emg

Registered: Feb 2010
Posts: 5318

03-28-12 05:50 PM

$500K is recommend to open a future account. But, must recommend to open a future account is $5 million.

If u don't have that kind of risk capital, i wish u luck on your very long journey to become a successful trader

Good Luck

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ocean5

Registered: Feb 2012
Posts: 934

03-28-12 07:04 PM

500K is good,but I'd say 250K-300K not bad.5M...wow!

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