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| | Margin call -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
 | | A margin call is the demand, in a (An account with a securities brokerage in which the broker extends credit) margin account, for additional funds, additional money or securities, to be deposited into the account. | | | The margin call requires the account owner to bring the account value up to the minimum acceptable amount called the maintenance margin. | | | Because the securities held in a margin account are acquired partially with borrowed money, the broker has the right to demand that the account owner maintain this minimum balance in an account. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/m/ma/margin_call.htm
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| | Margin (finance) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In finance, a margin is collateral that the holder of a position in securities, options or futures contracts has to deposit to cover the credit risk of his counterparty. | | | The margin (collateral) deposited in the margin account has to be at least equal to this minimum. | | | When the margin posted in the margin account is below the minimum margin requirement, the broker or exchange issues a margin call. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_buying
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| | The margin account is Marked-to-Market at the end of each business day, i.e., the brokerage firm calculates the actual margin of the account and compares it to the required maintenance margin. | | | When the margin percentage in the account is between the initial margin and the maintenance margin, the account is restricted. | | | Broker’s call money rate is the rate on a bank loan using the underlying securities as collateral and is usually less than the bank's prime rate. |
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http://www.lehigh.edu/~rjk7/docs/course/fin323/handouts/Margin.doc
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| | ALTAVEST Margin Requirements for Commodity Futures |
| | The maintenance margin is the amount of initial margin that must be maintained for that position before a margin call is generated. | | | Initial margin is the deposit required to maintain either a short or long position in a futures contract, it is NOT a cost. | | | The maintenance margin level is NOT additional to the initial margin. |
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http://www.altavest.com/margin_requirements.html
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| | Commerce Capital Markets Online Trading - Investment Glossary |
| | Margin accounts are governed by Regulation T of the Federal Reserve Board, by the NYSE, and by the brokerage firm's house rules. | | | A Regulation T margin call is sent when a purchase is made and a maintenance margin call is sent when the margin account's equity falls below specific levels. | | | The document details the rules governing a margin account, including the hypothecation of securities, how much equity the customer must keep in the account, and the interest rate on margin loans. |
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http://demo.pcinvest.com/commerce/ilMMa.htm
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| | Margin Trading |
| | Margin accounts allow investors to buy a lot of shares with a relatively small amount of cash up front by using the assets currently held in their accounts as collateral. | | | Your equity in the account rises and falls as the price of the stock rises and falls but the debit balance remains the same -- except for the accruing interest, which is at an annual rate of anywhere from 8 percent to 10 percent at the moment -- until you repay the debit. | | | As in any borrower-lender relationship, brokerage firms make money on margin accounts by charging interest on the debit balance. |
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http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/investing/20000301n.asp
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| | Investor Tips: Margin - Borrowing Money To Pay for Stocks |
| | Under most margin agreements, even if your firm offers to give you time to increase the equity in your account, it can sell your securities without waiting for you to meet the margin call. | | | If you are unable to meet the margin call, your firm will sell your securities to increase the equity in your account up to or above the firm's maintenance requirement. | | | Before trading on margin, the NYSE and NASD, for example, require you to deposit with your brokerage firm a minimum of $2,000 or 100 percent of the purchase price, whichever is less. |
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http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/margin.htm
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| | TheStreet.com: Investors Challenging Brokers in Margin-Call Clashes |
| | Securities firms that extend margin debt, however, insist their disclosure of margin rules to investors is already sufficient. | | | Margin rules are perhaps of greater interest to American investors now than at any other time, as securities buying on margin exploded to record levels early this year. | | | After April's market plunge, margin debt levels for NYSE member firms dropped from $278 billion in March to $252 billion. |
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http://www.thestreet.com/stocks/brokerages/941748.html
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| | AAII - American Association of Individual Investors |
| | As a result, your equity in the margin account is $50,000, and you have received a margin loan of $50,000 from the firm (see Table 1). | | | This is called âinitial margin.â Assuming you do not already have cash or other securities in your account to cover your share of the purchase price, you will receive a margin call (or âFed callâ) from your firm that requires you to deposit the other 50% of the purchase price. | | | Since the required maintenance equity is $15,000 and your equity in the account is only $10,000, you would receive a maintenance margin call for $5,000 ($15,000 less existing equity of $10,000). |
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http://www.aaii.com/commentary/articles/200505_stockstrategies.cfm
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| | Margin Policy - CMS Forex |
| | These margin requirements apply to all accounts, regardless of the currency in which the account is denominated. | | | All margin conversions for non-USD denominated accounts are done in the same way as the default option, but this option represents maximum leverage of 100:1. | | | All margin conversions for non-USD denominated accounts are done in the same way as the default option, but this option represents maximum leverage of 40:1. |
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http://www.cmsfx.com/en/why_cms/policies/margin
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| | Margin call |
| | Margin call money must be lodged by a specified time, otherwise the member is in default. | | | A margin call has two stages: the clearing house issues a statement to the clearing member early in the morning; the clearing member then contacts the clients concerned. | | | It is the clearing member who is liable to the clearing house for the funds demanded - the clearing house recognises only the obligations of the member, not those of the client. |
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http://www.anz.com/edna/dictionary.asp?action=content&content=margin_call
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| | Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary |
| | Related to the lump-sum payments made when a loan or bond is called, equal to the NPV of future loan or coupon payments not paid because of the call. | | | The margin is the difference between the market value of a stock and the loan a broker makes. | | | The accounting principle that requires the recognition of all costs that are associated with the generation of the revenue reported in the income statement. |
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http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/bfglosm.htm
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| | WFN - Women's Financial Network at Siebert -- Margin Information |
| | Margin loans typically have a lower interest rate than conventional bank loans or credit cards and there are no set-up costs or annual fees. | | | The interest charged for a margin loan is determined by the dollar amount borrowed on your account and is based upon the variable Brokers Call Rate. | | | To fulfill a margin call you must raise your account’s equity to the minimum acceptable level by either selling securities, depositing cash, or depositing securities that are already fully paid for. |
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http://www.wfn.com/home.asp?pageID=806
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| | Margin Trading - The Dreaded Margin Call |
| | This agreement explains the terms and conditions of the margin account, including: how interest is calculated; your responsiblities for repaying the loan; and how the securities you purchase serve as collateral for the loan. | | | A margin call forces the investor to either liquidate his/her position in the stock or add more cash to the account. | | | Second, the maintenance margin, which is the amount you need to maintain after you trade. |
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http://www.investopedia.com/university/margin/margin2.asp
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| | Day Trading |
| | Pattern day traders must maintain a minimum equity of $25,000 in their margin account at all times or the account will be issued a day trade minimum equity call. | | | Time & tick is a method for calculating whether an account creates a day trade call using the time of the execution of the trades in the account. | | | Your account has $20,000 more than NYSE minimum equity requirement for the marginable equities you hold. |
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http://personalmko.fidelity.com/products/stocksbonds/content/margin7.shtml
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| | Margin Call - FXMessage |
| | As the required margin % should be greater than 1.67%, as trades or portions of trades are closed the net asset value stays constant but the margin used decreases, thereby increasing the margin %. | | | The concept of margin call (and OANDA's implementation of it) is a common way used to protect these assets. | | | The true defenition of a margin call is the customer is asked to add funds to cover his margin requirements. |
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http://www.oanda.com/products/msgboard/ubb/Forum17/HTML/000668.html
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| | FX Spot Market Margin Call - FXMessage |
| | For accounts with 20:1 margin, when/if your margin availability declines to 4%, a warning will be issued via a pop-up window (only if you are logged in). | | | OANDA's margin call occurs when a trader's available margin drops below 2.5% for accounts with 20:1 margin ratio and at 1.66% for accounts with 30:1 margin ratio.. | | | FXTrade automatically checks margin requirements every time you issue a trade and every time there is a price movement in a currency pair. |
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http://www.oanda.com/products/msgboard/ubb/Forum15/HTML/000793.html
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| | Included in the terms of the customer agreement, the defendants reserved the right to make margin calls to secure account deficits at their own discretion and to liquidate plaintiffs' stock contracts at any time after plaintiffs failed to meet a margin call. | | | Because Exchange rules do not allow over-the-counter stock, such as the SNC stock, to be used to satisfy a margin call, the SNC stock had to be deposited in Moss's account and used as collateral for a loan from Bradford. | | | Exchange regulations require that the broker keep a maintenance margin on account with the clearing corporation. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/nc-supreme-court/jul0693/bradford
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| | Professional Trading Solutions - Buying Power FAQs |
| | If you are in a margin account, and you purchase a stock that is unmarginable (for example, a stock that is trading under $5), you will see that the buying power used up is twice what it would be if the stock were marginable. | | | Buying Power is additional marginable securities that a customer may purchase against the existing marginable securities in an account. | | | If a client opens positions while their account is set to a cash transactions only status, they will not be able to journal those positions to the margin side of their Penson account until the equity is brought to at least $7,500. |
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http://www.protradesol.com/client_resources/Trading/Buying_Power_Faqs.html
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| | Futures Industry Association FI Magazine Home |
| | The main impact of intra-day margining therefore will be on the treasury and cash management operations of the clearing firms, which will now have to fund two routine daily payments to the clearinghouse. | | | The new system, called Idris, is already in operation for swaps, repos and equities, and officials for the U.K. clearinghouse say extending it to futures and options will improve risk management without requiring major changes to member firm clearing systems. | | | Judging by early indications from the member firms represented on the clearinghouse’s risk committee and its board of directors, firms are unlikely to pass on the intra-day margin call to customers, according to White. |
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http://www.futuresindustry.org/fimagazi-1929.asp?iss=140&a=896
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| | TheStreet.com: Cold Calling: If You're Still on Margin, Calls May Come Without Warning |
| | A margin call arises when an investor borrows money from the broker to buy stock, putting up the holdings as collateral. | | | At Fidelity, a margin situation automatically generates a snail-mail letter (unless the call is for an amount greater than the worth of the account -- that could mean swift liquidation). | | | And that's good, because when it comes to margin calls, brokers have no duty to be coddling and communicative. |
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http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/whatworks/1366718.html
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| | New Rules Explained |
| | To calculate the amount of the margin call, you take the amount of the overage (in both cases above the overage is $160,000) and subtract the amount of your buying power, and divide by the margin level you have. | | | Because the Day Trading Margin Call requires funds to be deposited into your account to cover the margin call, you will have to monitor your account very closely, especially if you have to live by "Total Commitment". | | | Currently a margin call is issued based on a position that is held overnight. |
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http://www.itsinthecharts.com/PDTreport/NewRules.htm
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| | Comment |
| | People must cover their intra-day margin calls, but the amount should be based on the amount of exposure actual risk they had taken. | | | This is not requiring the account to maintain equity and margin sufficient to support the risks in day trading. | | | The account that went over margin by $1000 is required to come up with equity for 39 times the money in the account? |
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http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/ny9947/naylor1.htm
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| | Margin Call |
| | You would receive a margin call from a broker if one or more of the securities you had bought (with borrowed money) decreased in value past a certain point. | | | A broker's demand on an investor using margin to deposit additional money or securities so that the margin account is brought up to the minimum maintenance margin. | | | You would be forced either to deposit more money in the account or sell off some of your assets. |
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http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/margincall.asp
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| | Margin Call Policy - CMS Forex |
| | It is the customer's responsibility to monitor and maintain his/her margin account balances at all times. | | | You may keep track of your equity and usable margin in the "Account(s) Information" window on the Visual Trading platform. | | | As permitted within the scope of National Futures Association (NFA) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations, CMS may, at the discretion of its dealers, close any or all open positions in a trader's account, in the event that an account falls below the minimum required equity (margin call). |
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http://www.cmsfx.com/en/why_cms/policies/margin_call
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| | Glossary |
| | When you have to add money to your margin account to cover a percentage of what you've borrowed. | | | Keeps what you owe within proper limits to protect the investment dealer's loan. |
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http://www.investored.ca/en/glossary/glossary_term.asp?id=95
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| | CUNA |
| | You will also learn when to use a margin account and its potential rewards and risks. | | | You will learn how to set one up, what its limitations are and how to engage in margin transactions. | | | How Do You Set Up a Margin Account? |
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http://www.creditunion.coop/tutorials/tut-1097601689-1.html
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| | Trade2Win Boards - Margin Call!! |
| | I assume the 3rd one was a wrong booking as well, on receiving the call I checked my account and found myself 80 pts in profit on a bet I hadn't placed. | | | It seems that when I closed out my position they doubled my margin requirement instead of eliminating it! | | | Trade2Win Boards > The Methodologies > Planning, Risk and Money Management |
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http://www.trade2win.com/boards/showthread.php?t=4698
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| | Schaeffer's Investment Research Margin Trading Tutorial: Introduction |
| | One of the only things riskier than investing on margin is investing on margin without understanding what you're doing. | | | The dark side of margin is that you can lose your shirt and any other assets you're wearing. | | | Margin is a high risk strategy that can yield a huge profit if executed correctly. |
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http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/schaeffersu/advanced/margin?click=jumpto
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| | Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes |
| | You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value. | | | Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! |
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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jane_bryant_quinn.html
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| | MoneyTec Traders Community - Margin Call question |
| | Can someone briefly explain margin calls or say I have $1000 in an account with 20:1 leverage. | | | If I take a position of.1lots, how big of a loss would have to |
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http://www.moneytec.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13760
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