You should check with your own broker on margin. I've seen e-mini margin as low as $500.
--- In [email protected], Richard Dale <rich...@...> wrote: > > The E-Mini S&P 500 security should have the following properties to > enable correct backtesting: > Tick Size: 0.25 > Point Value: 50 > Margin: 5625 > > Best regards, > Richard Dale. > Norgate Investor Services > - Premium quality Stock, Futures and Foreign Exchange Data for > markets in Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, UK & USA - > www.premiumdata.net > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [amibroker] hello all S&P emini question > From: zeek ing <zeekin...@...> > To: [email protected] > Date: sun, 17 may 2009 16:32:48 -0400 > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > all I am trying to set up a backtester on s&P emini data. Just wanted > > to know what the appropriate point value should be in the code. > > > > I thought 0.5m but i am not sure. Can anyone help? > > > > > > zeek > > >
