It's not easy or simple. You can use the occ website to get a close approximation of requirement for a position. My firm offers a premium product for trading groups and hedge funds that will calculate portfolio margin haircut in real time for equity/option trading. The risk platform is very new and works for multiple prime brokers, multiple platforms, and many traders with complex positions. For our other clients, our risk manager can monitor haircut for our clients.
Question to rmorse ?????? Does your firm clear any trades Does your firm help raise capital for trading groups or hedge funds
Victor Securities is an Introducing Brokers to Merrill Lynch Professional and Penson Financial and we provide a variety of solutions for Hedge Funds, Trading Groups and Active Traders. If you're not familiar with the IB relationship, we are the brokers for our clients. We are the single point of contact to the Prime Broker and provide execution platforms, clearance through the Prime Broker, and any other services our clients require to help them run and expand their business, including cap-intro when possible. Bob