Subject: RE: Holdings page?
From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 17:14:43 PST
erikd@cometsystems.com (Erik Diehn) writes:
>
>> The appropriate number of contracts to trade will vary by
>> contract type.
>> Since I want to put more emphasis than FX does on making
>> prices valuable
>> to casual surfers (as with IEM), and less emphasis on making
>> this into a
>> game, so I'm reluctant to do much scaling of ranges.
>
>What about a claim like MSFT3z, where the maximum value is 1000? It seems
>that no one will ever be able to buy no contracts in that claim, given the
>price (~$800 - $900).
Trade 0.01 contracts at a time.
This is the kind of claim for which margin requirements need improvement,
but beyond that I don't see a big need for change.
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter McCluskey | Boycott Amazon.com until they stop suing http://www.rahul.net/pcm | companies that support 1-click shopping.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28critmail : Wed Aug 22 2001 - 05:25:00 PDT