Futures Margin vs. Exposure: Understand the Real Risk
Summary
Hollow Point Trading shares a short explaining why a futures margin deposit is not the same as total market exposure. Using a hypothetical index contract priced at 5,000 points with a $10 multiplier, it shows how one contract represents $50,000 in notional exposure and loses $500 after a 50-point decline, before fees.
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A futures margin deposit is smaller than the exposure #Shorts
A futures margin deposit is not the full market exposure. Imagine a hypothetical index futures contract priced at five thousand points, with a multiplier of ten dollars per point. One contract has fifty thousand dollars of notional exposure. If the price falls fifty points, one long contract loses five hundred dollars before fees. The calculatio...
