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QUESTION 1 Consider an investor who contacts his/her broker on December 10 th to enter into SHORT position on 30 February Crude oil futures contract.

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  1. Consider an investor who contacts his/her broker on December 10th to enter into SHORT position on 30 February Crude oil futures contract.

    Contract to be traded = 30 contracts

    Each contract size = 1000 barrel

    Maintenance margin required = $4600 per contract

    Suppose that current futures price is $36.50 per barrel.

    Initial margin requirement is set at 110% of the maintenance margin.

    Suppose the following futures prices occur for each day. Note that following traded price and futures prices are per-barrel-price.

    date

    traded price

    settlement price

    daily loss/gain

    cum. loss/gain

    Acct bal.

    Margin call (yes/no)

    "variation margin" margin call amt ($)

    Acct. bal (after adjusting margin call)

    10-Dec

    $36.50

    $36.76

    11-Dec

    $37.16

    12-Dec

    $37.51

    13-Dec

    $37.65

    14-Dec

    $37.00

    total cum.loss/gain=

    0

    1) FIND THE INITIAL MARGIN AND MAINTENANCE MARGIN FOR THE TOTAL CONTRACT, RESPECTIVELY. WHAT IS THE ACCOUNT BALANCE ON DEC/12?

    2) IS THERE ANY MARGIN CALL? IF SO, WHEN DOES IT OCCUR? AND HOW MUCH IS NEEDED TO RESPOND TO THE MARGIN CALL (i.e. what is the variation margin)?

    3) WHAT IS THE TOTAL CUMULATIVE LOSS OR GAIN?

    *note: since this is a "short" position, whenever a futures price drops, it will be a gain and vice versa.

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