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Yesterday, you bought one futures contract on S&P 500 index at $2700. The contract size is 50. Initial margin requirement is $30,000, and maintenance margin

Yesterday, you bought one futures contract on S&P 500 index at $2700. The contract size is 50. Initial margin requirement is $30,000, and maintenance margin requirement is $27,000. And the position is closed after 8 trading days at futures price of $2730.41. Please mark to market for your position by completing the daily settlement table in Excel file. If there is margin call, you should mark out and deposit an amount of cash into your margin account. (post your table here as your solution)

date settlement price position market value mark to market (porfit / loss) other entries (margin call deposit) margin account balance
position opened (day 0) 2700.00000 initial margin: 30,000 30000.00
day 1 2712.00000
day 2 2693.00000
day 3 2693.30000
day 4 2633.13000
day 5 2718.30000
day 6 2734.80000
day 7 2728.64000
day 8 2730.41000
position closed (8/18) 2730.41000 profit or loss =
profit/losss =

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