IB Margin increases....

JamesJ said:
strange, YM Margin is shown in tws as <3000 initial overnight, while es is 8000 and nq almost 13k...
something is wrong here... risk on all three of them is more or less the same.
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My TWS i showing right values, all are about 10K GBP which is 13K USD
 
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southall said:
Only guess is that IB dont have high exposure to CL, customers don't hold many contracts.
Who would want to hold CL overnight anyway, after the moves during Gulf War 1, i wouldn't be able to sleep if i regularly had overnight positions in CL.
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See the link....we are talking INTRADAY margin requirements here. Maybe the margin wlll change tonight. So then the question is why are the larger CL margins "so late" to the game ? I mean CL has tanked a record amount.....current margins should be thru the roof !
 
syswizard said:
See the link....we are talking INTRADAY margin requirements here. Maybe the margin wlll change tonight. So then the question is why are the larger CL margins "so late" to the game ? I mean CL has tanked a record amount.....current margins should be thru the roof !
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Margin in CL is about 20% of notional which is twice SIF margin, which are now around 10% of notional.

Notional value of one CL contract went from 40K to 30K.

So even if margin stays the same in absolute dollar terms, it has actually gone up by 25% as a percentage of notional :D
 
Better than trading solely on Topstep Trader. They have completely shut down trading for funded accounts during this vol. Now we wait and twiddle our thumbs until they open - sucks balls.
 
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