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Mark reminded me he has the Oddball trades posted on the web. There are
366 trades of the SPX cash index - not a very realistic test but good
enough to illustrate what we are doing. He's using $250/point to
simulate the SP futures with no slip/com. I subtracted $250/RT for
slip/com and ran it through 10,000 loops of the MC. Here are the
results. Small account guys could divide the numbers by 5 to get an idea
of how much they should have in the account for each mini ES they trade,
keeping in mind that the futures probably won't do as well as the cash.

-- 
  Dennis

Probability of drawdown		
	Size of drawdown per contract	
		Min. account size per contract with $19,688 margin
0.01%	$94,618	$114,306
0.1%	$79,200	$98,888
0.2%	$73,483	$93,171
0.3%	$71,235	$90,923
0.4%	$69,673	$89,361
0.5%	$68,525	$88,213
0.6%	$67,313	$87,001
0.7%	$66,510	$86,198
0.8%	$65,923	$85,611
0.9%	$64,863	$84,551
1%	$64,275	$83,963
2%	$60,013	$79,701
3%	$57,458	$77,146
4%	$55,480	$75,168
5%	$53,903	$73,591
6%	$52,523	$72,211
7%	$51,205	$70,893
8%	$50,353	$70,041
9%	$49,240	$68,928
10%	$48,330	$68,018
11%	$47,703	$67,391
12%	$47,108	$66,796
13%	$46,480	$66,168
14%	$45,920	$65,608
15%	$45,378	$65,066
16%	$44,905	$64,593
17%	$44,493	$64,181
18%	$44,020	$63,708
19%	$43,623	$63,311
20%	$43,238	$62,926
25%	$41,078	$60,766
30%	$39,405	$59,093
35%	$37,960	$57,648
40%	$36,628	$56,316
45%	$35,390	$55,078
50%	$34,208	$53,896
55%	$33,195	$52,883
60%	$32,073	$51,761
65%	$31,038	$50,726
70%	$30,018	$49,706
75%	$29,070	$48,758
80%	$28,025	$47,713
85%	$26,840	$46,528
90%	$25,460	$45,148
95%	$23,478	$43,166
99%	$20,485	$40,173
99.9%	$17,913	$37,601
99.99%	$15,810	$35,498