April 2013
Beginner
561 pages
16h 43m
English
Thanks to movies and other media outlets, many beginning traders have become overly frightened by the idea of a margin call. Truth be told, if you trade responsibly, you shouldn’t receive many, but it can—and eventually will—happen. When it does, there’s no need to panic; most margin calls can be alleviated via position adjustment instead of adding funds to the account or outright liquidating trades.
Unlike equity accounts, in which margin is granted only to a few, all futures accounts are margin accounts.
Margin is simply a specified amount of funds stipulated by the exchange and required to be held in a brokerage account to enter and keep open positions in a futures market. In its simplest ...
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