CME maintenance margin hike

[Mariama]

I have a subscription to a financial newsletter and I was alerted a couple of hours ago about a possibly wild ride coming Monday, as the CME (the watchdog of the stock exchange) will raise maintenance margins, which will create financial havoc according to insiders.

Please see:

http://traderdannorcini.blogspot.com/

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/cme-goes-margin-defcon-1-makes-maintenance-margin-equal-initial-everything

Have you seen it?

I am just the messenger, I know very little of this world, but I try to follow it to the best of my ability.

[Jason (ocean59)]

Apparently, an update was posted the next day stating it was all a big misunderstanding, and poor choice of wording. However, the correct interpretation doesn't sound all that promising either: _http://www.zerohedge.com/news/cme-issues-clarification-margins-usher-more-risk-less-liquidity-mf-aftermath

[Mariama]

Thanks Jason, for this.

No, it doesn't sound promising at all. And I still do not understand why the first message was released after everybody had gone home for the week-end.