CFD vs Futures – margin comparison

• 06/30/2018 at 10:05 AM #74905
  Despair

  Has somebody found a comparison table for the new ESMA CFD margins in comparison to futures margins? I read an article that claimed that with the new margins in several cases the futures margin is lower than the CFD margin (I think bund future was mentioned as example).

  I googled but couldn’t find something I liked and I’m definitely too lazy to look up every underlying on its own. 🙂

  

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  06/30/2018 at 12:17 PM #74923
  Eric

  I saw this as a comment on forex factory

  but who knows?

  “US brokers charge $ 1000,00 margin for the Mini DAX.
  For the Big FDAX they charge $ 2500,00 margin. (EU brokers charge E 20.000 to E 22.000 margin for 1 FDAX contract)
  In EU the margins are much higher for all DAX contracts and US contracts.”

  US mini dax 5 euro * 12 000 = 60 000 euro and margin 1000 usd = leverage 70?

  EU FDAX 25 euro * 12 000 = 300 000 euro and margin 20 000 euro = leverage 15?

   

   

  

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