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Suppose now that you indeed had a grand in your futures account with a broker that set the emini day trading margin at only $500. Suppose also that what you wanted to trade is ES, the emini contract of S&P 500. Since one point of this instrument is equal to $50 and its price is these days (April 2007) about 1450, it is quite easy to find out