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I have account with Options House and Fidelity and they both calculate Buying Power as (Cash Debit or Credit + SMA)/0.50. For SMA, to simplify things let’s just say your stocks haven’t changed in value since you purchased them. So the SMA = the value of your current holding * 0.70...

Thanks for the clarification bondtrader50. tradingjournals, Here is the link for the September contracts on the ratios (the other link I posted was old). http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/files/Sept2010_ICS-Ratios.pdf The 3 to 1 refers to buying (selling) 3, 2-year treasury...

This is probably a noobie question but hopefully someone can help me out. I've been trying to figure out the ratio I would need to purchase in treasury futures to trade the spread, for example, I will refer to the 2-year note and 30-yr bond. I came across this page and it looks like it gives...