Suppose you sold 20 futures contracts at a price of $5.00 per bushel and suppose the maintenance margin is $1300 per contract. At the end of the first trading day when the price fell from $5.00 to $4.80 per bushel, the amount of the margin call you had to make is

A. $0
B. $10,000
C. $20,000
D. $6,000.

Ans: A. $0

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