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Korean Won Futures maintenance margin CME: $2,500 https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/fx/emerging-market/korean-won.margins.html Cannon Trading: $2,500 https://www.e-futures.com/margin-requirements.php Interactive Brokers: $18,500 https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=26662 Now the...

Now that the commodities, especially the grains, are rallying back, the question is how many people got stopped out or had signal reversals only to see those commodities rally so strongly today? That happened to me in some but not all of my instruments.

Yesterday and today have been tough, but nothing unusual in terms of drawdown. My system placed some trades this morning. So far, some of those look like they've saved me some money and the others have lost. About a wash. NB While trend is a major component of my trading system, I have other...

My IB also won't connect and the system status webpage is also down.

Wow! That sure is complicated. I'm sure there must be something between "caveman trend following" and whatever it is you're doing.

Micro WTI futures are coming soon. If it's like the other micros, it should have good liquidity, but only in the front month. https://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2021/5/17/cme_group_to_launchmicrowtifuturesonjuly12.html

Not dead. Just pining for the fjords.

Never let your schooling get in the way of your education.

CME now lists the maintenance margin requirement at $1,600 while IB requires a maintenance margin of $6,780, more than four times the CME requirement!

And look at that difference between initial and maintenance!

It is normal for futures traders to use 30% margin. My aim is ~50%. But when some are 2x-3x normal, it's easy to get to 100%.

Another crazy example. The CME margin requirement on the Indian Rupee future is $1,400. IB is telling me I need an initial margin of $5,618 and a maintenance margin of $4,495. I know that futures traders aren't supposed to be using up anywhere near all their margin, but when IB requires 2-3x...

According to the CME website, the maintenance margin on the July 2021 Natural Gas future is $1,900. But when I go to sell this contract on IB, TWS tells me the initial margin requirement is $5,499 and the maintenance margin in $4,399. Am I missing something? Or are IB's margin requirement just...

Why doesn't the Adaptive Algo work on the SOFR3/SR3 futures? When I try to use it, I get a price invalid error.

Either I was closer to using up my available margin or I trade more low-volume contracts, probably both.

Do either of them offer futures on the Canadian Derivatives Exchange/Montreal Exchange (for Canadian Treasuries) or the Canola contract on ICE Canada? I don't see them listen on either brokers' website.

No doubt about it. IB is the absolute worst, except for all the others. (There are many things I don't like about IB, but it's still the best broker I can find for what I need.)

Am I the only one who received this notice from IB? I got it on February 11, but didn't share until now because I assumed others would have. Dear Trader, The Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk (SPAN) is a methodology developed by the CME and used by many clearinghouses and exchanges around...

No chart to help us out?

I know the reason, but I'm still surprised by the extent of the move.