Say a guy has a $1 million account and he puts it all into treasuries. Now he wants to trade ES futures. What is the maximum number of contracts that he can buy?
Based on the assumption that they will let him use 70% of the treasuries for margin (conservative) then 200 contracts overnight based on ExMin margin. For daytrading 1000 contracts
Say a guy has a $1 million account and he puts it all into treasuries. Now he wants to trade ES futures. What is the maximum number of contracts that he can buy?
Maximum contracts he could buy or safely should buy?
1 contract ES mini :
1460 points X $50 = $73,000 market exposure
200 contracts X $73,000 = $14,600,000
1000 contracts X $73,000 = $73,000,000
and whatever % (1-25%?) of that he is comfortable losing if he is long and can't get out, when the market panic-program sells, with or without a reason again.
