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    Anyone daytrade or swingtrade ES options?

    yea, I need to somehow get an easy method to calculate the margin required when selling in or out of the money ES options...or any other Futures options...I'll ask my broker...unless someone here can easily in simple language spell it out...thanks again...
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    how do you determine margin needed for selling an out of money futures option?

    thanks...I wish there was some sort of calculation I could do personally to figure a given margin required per selling an out of the money (or ITM) ES option...or, I guess I must "manually" ask my broker...as the only way...
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    Urgent Message From Rennick

    might be good as OIl will soar with the hurricane and CAD tracks Oil..comments?
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    Anyone daytrade or swingtrade ES options?

    also..how would ES futures daytrade margins factor in when trading ES options?..also...seems a better deal to EXPLOIT the puffed up option pricing and sell that option as it shrinks down..seems better deal to sell options than buy them as price is puffed up..thoughts?
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    Anyone daytrade or swingtrade ES options?

    thanks a lot...Q1-would a far, really far sold ES option out of the money option need the full futures contract overnight margin to hold the position?I would think not...would it not be much less?Q2-what if I bought one call and sold another?..would the huge margin be required?...I guess what I...
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    how do you determine margin needed for selling an out of money futures option?

    can anyone help?
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    how do you determine margin needed for selling an out of money futures option?

    also...does the $$$ premium I received from the sale of the option go towards the margin needed to cover that sold option? I would believe it goes towards that full margin amount required...correct?
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    how do you determine margin needed for selling an out of money futures option?

    can you give me an example....my platform does not offer that...use an ES September option.."way out of the money" if you sold 1 call or 1 put..thanks...how much margin per that 1 sold contract...
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    how do you determine margin needed for selling an out of money futures option?

    how do you determine margin needed for selling an out of money Futures option?...is there a certain calculation?...where do you find it?...or should you just ask your broker?...can you provide an example please...thanks in advance...
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    Anyone daytrade or swingtrade ES options?

    in every scenario if I write/short ES calls or ES puts do I need to have the full overnight margin in my account per each contract I short?...is there anything that exempts me from having to put up the whole overnnight margin if I short/write an ES call or put?...also, would the premium paid me...
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    $1,000.00 to $10,000 Futures Trading Challenge "Could you or have you?"

    are you being serious?...did this really happen?...what are YG and YI?really 2 days to take 54k to 0??
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    Anyone daytrade or swingtrade ES options?

    reply to point #1-I dis-agree, I've seen the live feed...very tight spreads of .25 to .50...just like the ES futures...agree that swing is better... what about a at the money straddle?
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    Evidence that SP/DOW Bulls should BEWARE...a must read here....SHORTS will agree 100%

    I was WRONG!...but...are all gains lost with hurricane next week?
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    $1,000.00 to $10,000 Futures Trading Challenge "Could you or have you?"

    thanks...but then I could not focus on netting 2 ES points per day :) :D :p :cool:
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    $1,000.00 to $10,000 Futures Trading Challenge "Could you or have you?"

    use :5 :15 and :30 minute charts...the 1 minute is where the noise is.
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    you execute a trade..do not have the daytrade margin and it went through!

    so, they did not penalize you or "bust the trade"?..they let you "Bag the profits"...correct
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    you execute a trade..do not have the daytrade margin and it went through!

    wow...thought they might bust it
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    you execute a trade..do not have the daytrade margin and it went through!

    I thought it was all automated?meaning the system would not allow
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    Anyone daytrade or swingtrade ES options?

    why do you say this?...honestly?
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    you execute a trade..do not have the daytrade margin and it went through!

    EXAMPLE: say you have $5,000 in your account...daytrade margin of XYZ contract is $8,000....you put a buy market order in and it goes through and 1 minute later you sell for a $500.00 profit... what would happen? *nothing, just keep the profit? *trade gets busted at a later time? *you...
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