It also refers to the amount of equity contributed by an investor as a percentage of the current
market value of securities held in a margin account.
The amount available for a margin loan is based on the current market
value of the securities held in your account or the securities you are purchasing.
Equity, in the context of margin trading, is the
total value of securities in the margin account minus what has been borrowed from the brokerage firm.
Our experience with distressed debt is invaluable in this regard, as it allows us to fully understand the
intrinsic value of a security in a negative scenario.
A margin call is triggered when the investor's equity as a percentage of total market
value of securities falls below a certain percentage requirement, which is called the maintenance margin.
Demand for a given security increases or decreases based on the collective assessment that all traders make regarding the real or
perceived value of that security.
Another problem with ETFs is they can trade at a premium above the underlying market
value of the securities contained in the fund, and at other times they can trade at a discount.
Bonds carry the promise of their issuer to return the
face value of the security to the holder at maturity; stocks have no such promise from their issuer.
Therefore, even though the trader is borrowing funds, he has to pay some part of the
total value of securities with his own money.
Futures margin generally represents a smaller percentage of the notional value of the contract, typically 3 - 12 % per futures contract as opposed to up to 50 % of the face
value of securities purchased on margin.
The portfolio turnover measures the trading activity of the fund, which is computed by dividing the lesser of purchases or sales for the year by the monthly average
value of the securities owned by the fund during the year.
Percent of net assets figures represent the Fund's exposure based on the economic
value of securities adjusted for futures, options, swaps and convertible bonds.
Percent of net assets figures represent the Fund's exposure based on the
economic value of securities adjusted for futures, options, swaps and convertible bonds.
A derivative trader is an individual who is hired by a company or a financial institute to perform derivative trading which is related to deriving
value of a security takes its value depending upon stock, bonds etc..
Adjusted cost base (ACB): the
book value of a security based on the initial investment cost, additional contributions and reinvested amounts.
In return, you'll get a tax receipt equal to the fair market
value of the securities donated, and you will not be taxed on the capital gains accrued on those securities, as you would if you sold the securities during your lifetime.
Although the name is changing, the red shield logo, which Intel says signifies «the
core values of security and protection,» will not.
The NUA tax strategy allows certain clients whose qualified retirement plans contain these appreciated employer securities to eventually pay taxes on the
appreciated value of those securities at the lower long - term capital gains tax rate, rather than at the ordinary income tax rate that would otherwise apply to retirement plan distributions.
If the market
value of the security basket does fall below 90 % of the ETF's NAV, the fund will ask the swap counterparty to pay the prevailing swap value by posting (or delivering) additional securities to top up the security basket (and thereby increase the collateral held) back to 100 % of NAV and thereby at least temporarily reducing counterparty risk back to zero.
If there was a way to determine the fair market
value of a security simply based on whether it was part of either the dirty or clean economy, wouldn't it be easy to simply trade profitably on that information?