wow another day that IB raised margins :confused: NQ was 1625 when I checked over the weekend, now that one has gone up to 1938. What's the...
(1) Stock Market Crash of 1929 - The Dow falls a total of 23% for October 28 and 29; (2) October 13 and 16, 1989 - The Dow plunges 190.50...
The risk of having the exchange down is one that has always existed and always will. In fact it happened on the YM not so long ago. If you barely...
Your reasoning is flawed. Margin requirements have always been based on current or historic volatility. Never on "what if"-scenarios. Otherwise we...
By your reasoning margin should at all times be like 10 times as much as what is necessary under "normal" circumstances...
Yeah which I why I'm even more surprised to see them raise margins each week, above the "4%" rule they introduced first... it seems of little use...
Yeah, how about this? just checked new margins they raised the YM margin to a whopping 3125 USD?! anybody remember when it used to be 1406...
I am only quoting what they sent me.
Let me know what the volume is like! I don't see any change on the CME in terms of volume... (yet?)
I know!! Which is exactly why I am puzzled at their statement. :confused:
Here you go: "I have an update for you. Effective tomorrow the ER2 contract will no longer be traded and the new symbol for the Russell 2000...
I know, I actually send a ticket too. My first reply was that they didn't know of any changes. Yesterday however I received an answer that as...
Yes, exactly. Which I why I am very very surprised to get a message from IB that they will no longer offer ER2 on CME starting... TOMORROW :eek:
I thought it was September 2008, not September 2007 >>> Just got a message saying that starting tomorrow the ER2 contract will no longer be...
Just got a message saying that starting tomorrow the ER2 contract will no longer be traded :eek: :confused: I am aware of the change to ICE...
Good points made there... sure make me wonder why this excess is necessary. They are also increasing margin on other European futures contracts...
To me it's just seems their margin requirements are not based on anything objective. Although they post their "formula" on the website, they are...
yeah I was hoping to see those levels return to normal but ALAS! It's rather the opposite :mad: :eek: The margin requirement for FTSE (Z) has...
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