Margin Trading
Interactive

Margin Trading

Intuition Publishing
Updated Sep 25, 2020

Margin is a term given to the collateral put up by a client as part of a loan extended to them to purchase financial securities. Here we see the need for margin accounts, the aims of margin accounts, and we examine the ongoing requirements on clients in respect of their margin accounts. We see how margin accounts are used in short sales and we discuss the use of special memorandum accounts.