trade on margin

To reduce the risks associated with trading on margin, day traders use stop-losses.

Many investment funds use leverage, the practice of borrowing money or trading on margin in addition to capital from investors.

In a volatile market, trading on margin can find you in a whole lot of hurt very quickly."

But regulators and traders said today that most brokers required customers trading on margin to put up additional collateral in case there are sudden losses.

CFDs are traded on margin, and the leveraging effect of this increases the risk significantly.

CFDs are traded on margin, and the trader must maintain the minimum margin level at all times.

LEPOs are traded on margin.

In an August 1999 report, Mr. Biggs informed his readers that "my plumber" had begun to trade on margin.

Under Federal securities laws, Goldman must maintain segregated accounts for the securities it holds for customers who are not trading on margin.

CFDs were originally developed in the early 1990s in London as a type of equity swap that was traded on margin.

Being futures contracts they are traded on margin, thus offering leverage, and they are not subject to the short selling limitations that stocks are subjected to.

One of the benefits (and risks) of trading CFDs is that they are traded on margin meaning that they provide the trader with leverage.

Under rules originally set by the Federal Reserve Board, customers who trade on margin must put up to 50 percent in cash or securities to cover the initial transaction's market value.

It provides foreign exchange (forex, fx) trading on margin through its own online trading platform (called LION Trader).

But the story doesn't tell us if trading on margin is allowed at Charles Schwab or Morgan Stanley--in other words, if he could have bet as riskily at a more established firm or away from a computer.

Mr. Cohen's lawyers also asserted that Mr. Fakih had traded on margin and had short traded, and lost tens of thousands of dollars, at a different firm before opening his account at Gruntal.

Overall, the market rose during the year from 245 to 331 which was accompanied by a phenomenal increase in trading on margin, which relieved the buyer from putting up the full purchase price of the stock by using the securities as collateral for a loan.

"I am troubled by the apparent ease with which real neophytes are going online these days all by themselves and trading on margin," said Bradley Skolnick, the Indiana securities commissioner and president of the North American Securities Administrators Association.