Here’s what triggers a margin call: The best online brokers will give you notice when you’re close to approaching your maintenance margin, giving you extra time to get your account in order.

Margin Call is a movie that chronicles the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis, where an investment bank faces collapse after taking on debts too large to handle – and has to make some ...

This includes agreeing to margin maintenance requirements and the possibility of margin calls (more on these later). Finally, an investor must deposit a minimum of $2,000 in order to open their ...

When that happens, Chiappetta says, the firm may issue a margin call, which means the investor must deposit money or sell securities to cover the shortfall. Margin accounts are distinct from cash ...

Timothy Keady, DTCC chief client officer and head of DTCC Solutions, explains why firms should migrate from manual to automated processing of margin calls in preparation for the challenges that the ...

Margin call is the term for when the equity on your account – the total capital you have deposited plus or minus any profits or losses – drops below your margin requirement. You can find both figures ...