What is Margin?
Margin is money you put up as collateral to open a leveraged position, with the rest effectively borrowed or backed by the broker. A margin account lets you trade with leverage, short sell, and hold positions larger than your cash balance. Trading on margin means you can lose more than your initial deposit, and borrowed funds may carry interest.
Why Margin matters
It is the deposit that unlocks leverage, and getting it wrong is how accounts blow up faster than expected.
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