Incorrect Intraday Margins?

[Scott McPartland]

Hi, I'm getting an error message this morning that I have insufficient funds in my account to trade 3 MES contracts. I have 3400 USD in there, according to the latest update, that should be MORE than enough to trade 3 micro contracts. Is this an error?

[NinjaTrader_PatrickG]

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[Scott McPartland]

Yes, I already read that, and there is clearly something wrong. This is what you have as the margin requirements for the MES as of your latest update:

MICRO E-MINI S&P500 FUTURES $50 (Intraday)

So how could an account with $3400 in there not be enough to trade 3 Micro E-Mini contracts? Just putting it out there that's there's an issue, and my guess is it's affecting other markets as well.

I'll go ahead an contract Brokerage Support regardless...

[Scott McPartland]

Quick Update: As of 8:22am EDT the issue seems to have been corrected.