Futures Margin Easy to Understand

Explanation in five minutes easy to understand futures margin. I use Tradovate for my personal Futures Trading and these are the best rates imho + I love the Tradovate platform.

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[israelcolon]

So initial is the minimum to open one contract and the day in how far it can go in drawdown before it’s margin called?

[noobtrader]

LOL.. This is exactly what I did. Put six hundo in and bought 8 micro ES. Sheee gone!!!

[singhparambir]

hi boss, see i deposit $100, and buy 1 contract at$50 then i still have $50 remain in my account. If value goes down suppose 10%, $45 left. Why do i get margin call . I still have &50 remaining left. So i guess if value goes 100 percent down, $50 eashed away, but i have another $50, why did they give margin call??



Or even, why do i get margin call, $50 was my money, i did not get from the broker.

[Matthew-wmrd]

Help im just starting... So with the NQ the margin is $1000 then what is the "initial" $17380.00 amount right next to the $1000. On optimus futures they also called this number the Am I right there is a daytrade margin a overnight margin and a initial margin?

[JJTRADEZz]

Best video I ever found on trading futures with margins

[cristianalvarado]

Hi guys, I know this is an old video. For any active futures traders… what is your safe bet for a margin requirement trading /ES contracts. Considering /ES can take on ranges between 30-100 per day.

[travisc]

this may seem like a dumb question after you just went over this but, I dont have to deposit the "initial margin"? 1166$ /mes because when ive been practice trading it shows the demo account the amount of the "initial margin" when you place a long or short. Maybe its because im always sim trading past hours. Because my plan is to trade when i get off of work because i have a full time job during the day so my only available times to trade would be from 6pm-midnight or what have you. Its the same when i place an order in TOS as well as Tradovate. It shows "cost of trade" then it subtracts that inital margin, Maybe im misunderstanding but that could be very possible because i just recently started scratching the surface of Trading.

[thestrugglingdaytrader]

Great information do you ever get into the futures currency's?

[kssouaykoumane]

Do you still trade with apex funding? I just hit the profit goal for a 50k account need 4 more trading days to get funded!

[orangastang]

I trade 15-30 second charts on nq. Ill risk 250-500 per trade with on average a 5-7 mini on nq. Very profitable but seems like I need 10s of thousands to do this on a personal no?