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margin_comparison

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-09-12, from what-are-single-stock-futures.

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margin_comparison — 4 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
regimemargin_pctdeposit_usdleverage_x
Reg T initial5050002
Reg T maintenance2525004
OneChicago era floor2020005
CME security futures floor1515006.7
Rows × columns
4 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for margin_comparison, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
regime text 4 distinct values
margin_pct number 15 to 50 percent
deposit_usd number 1,500 to 5,000 US dollars
leverage_x number 2 to 6.7

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number 
SELECT
    regime,
    margin_pct,
    round(10000 * margin_pct / 100, 0) AS deposit_usd,
    round(100 / margin_pct, 1) AS leverage_x
FROM (
    SELECT 'Reg T initial' AS regime, 50 AS margin_pct
    UNION ALL SELECT 'Reg T maintenance', 25
    UNION ALL SELECT 'OneChicago era floor', 20
    UNION ALL SELECT 'CME security futures floor', 15
)
ORDER BY margin_pct DESC

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