"Margin money" refers to the amount of money that is required to be paid upfront for a particular transaction, such as buying stocks or real estate. It is a percentage of the total value of the transaction, and serves as a form of down payment or security deposit.
Full definition
Different brokers require different amount
of margin money to keep your positions open.
Before that new investment, I had something like close to 40 000 $ left
in margin money.
A corporation or separate division of a futures exchange that is responsible for settling trading accounts, collecting and
maintaining margin monies, regulating delivery and reporting trade data.
It offers its clients to open a Free Demat Account with a condition that the client must put up an
initial margin money of at least $ 10,000 into the demat account.
The purpose of
minimum margin money is to serve as the protection for the broker if the price of the securities falls beyond a certain level such that the trader is unable to cover the loan.
I like to ask one of my own, what if you have Margin account but do not trade
with Margin money only cash balance.
Liquid ETF is convenient way to handle idle
margin money kept with broker & minimise operational work.
The brokers may also file a lawsuit against the borrower in the event of non-payment of
additional margin money, demanding immediate repayment.
FKLI requires a very
less margin money to trade with futures account and has tremendous earning potential thus making FKLI futures trading a necessity and a justified diversification among traders.
«But first - recall how you used to try to
collect margin money by first asking the customer to provide a contact at his bank who could confirm that he had sufficient funds in his account and that he had initiated the wire.
So thanks to the Dividend Lover (he's the debt busters who provide me the idea of
using margin money to pay off some debt at a higher interest rate), my 5 000 $ line of credit at 8.75 % is paid off.
So, the trader needs to deposit 8 % of $ 15,550 = $ 1,244 into the margin account as
initial margin money.
Minimum margin money is the fixed minimum amount that has to stay in the trader's margin account throughout the trade over and above the difference between the value of the securities and the loan.
Now, after making this new investment, I have left available 36 561.82 $
in margin money.
If you are showing a loss of $ 200 on the variation margin, then you will be required to put up an additional $ 200
of margin money in order to maintain the $ 6000 margin requirement -($ 6000 - $ 200 = $ 5800, so you must add $ 200 to maintain $ 6000).
Clearinghouse An agency or separate corporation of a futures exchange that is responsible for settling trading accounts, clearing trades, collecting and
maintaining margin monies, regulating delivery, and reporting trading data.
You'll have to pay all
that margin money back at some point — forget that at your peril.
It offers multiple brokerage plans depending on
the margin money the client is looking to put in while opening the account.
The margin money you put up to fund a short position ($ 6000 in the example given) is simply a «good faith» deposit that is required by the broker in order to show that you are acting in good faith and fully intend to meet any potential losses that may occur.
When you settle your short position by buying back the shares,
the margin monies will be release from segregation and the ledger postings to you cash account will be made according to whether you have made a profit or a loss.
For instance, for trading gold, the initial
margin money is $ 3200 which is equal to 10 % of one trading unit (10 gm) of gold.
Deposit fees (Account opening charges, Annual maintenance fees etc) and
margin money (or trading balance)
Therefore,
margin money has good potential to provide the traders with leverage to make more purchases than they have the capital for, but they may also end up in unanticipated losses, more than they have the appetite for.
This type of
margin money is called the initial margin money, and it is the part of the value of the securities that the trader has to pay with his own cash or funds.
Minimum
Margin Money: Minimum margin money is the fixed minimum amount that has to stay in the trader's margin account throughout the trade over and above the difference between the value of the securities and the loan.
Initial
Margin Money: As soon as the margin account is opened, the trader needs to deposit some money into the account before he starts trading on margin.
The initial
margin money amount may keep on reducing in a trader's account during the life of the trade due to his losses, but it has to remain above the minimum margin money requirement.
As soon as
the margin money is found to be sufficient in the margin account of the buyer and the counterparty is found, the trade is entered into.
This type of
margin money is called the
As soon as the money in the margin account starts going down and reaches the minimum margin level, the broker gives a margin call to the trader and asks him to top up the balance in the account through variable
margin money, so that the account balance again reaches the initial margin money.
This type of
margin money is called the initial margin money, and minimum margin money is the fixed minimum amount that has to stay in the trader's margin account throughout the trade over and above the difference between the value of the securities and the loan.
The plan is the following: open a margin account with TD Waterhouse and use partly
the margin money to pay off if not all, part of the debt I hold with TD Canada Trust... I won't use the margin to invest, just to pay off debt that are currently at a high interest rate.
I am using $ 50 933.68 of
my margin money and I have left available $ 18 072.40.
How to use Liquid ETF: Suppose you have
margin money of Rs. 1 Lakh with your broker.
You'll have to pay all
that margin money back at some point — forget that at your peril.
I will pay off my RBC credit line using
my margin money.
Margin money is monopoly money.
This upfront payment is called «
Margin Money».
Once you do this, hand over
the margin money to the broker, who will then get in touch with the exchange.
The settlement is made by adjusting your gain or loss against
the margin money you've already deposited.
I decide to use
margin money to invest at a low interest rate despite the fact that I said previously that I was going to only use the margin money to pay off debt at a higher interest rate.
What I really want to do however is use
that margin money to pay off my 8.75 % credit line of 5 000 $ that I hold with TD Canada Trust.
Many of the traders frequently buy & sell on stock exchanges and keep
margin money with their stock brokers.
In my case, I prefer to keep it simple and not use more than 30 % of
the margin money available.
I currently has used 7 000 $ of
my margin money available.
I won't use more of
my margin money because I am now a...