what is margin trading in stocks?
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Margin trading is buying stock with someone else's money. Typically, it works like this.\n\nYou put $1000 in a broker's margin account. You can buy up to $1500 in stocks. The extra $500 (50% of your amount) is being loaned to you by the broker. And yes, you will pay interest on that loan.\n\nThe trick is picking stocks that will outperform the interest rate. If the stock goes up, you can greatly increase your income. If it goes down, you lose more also. Plus, if you lose too much, you will have to sell off some of the stock (at a loss) in order to keep yourself with only a certain amount of debt (typically 50%). This is known as a margin call.\n\nHaving tried this, it is tricky. You can make a lot and you can lose a lot. I traded on margin for about a year and did both.
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In stocks, you can buy on margin. If you already own stock you can borrow against the value of the stock (your equity) and buy more stock. Your broker is the one that usually let you borrow the money. \n\nIf you price goes up, you can make  more money, but if the stock goes down you can get a margin call which mean you have to provide money immediately or your broker will sell your stock.\n\nSome people have done this with real estate, but it usually requires a market with high liquidity for the broker to be willing to loan you the money.
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it sounds like you are talking about something called "buying on margin". it is basically taking out a loan from whatever brokerage firm you trade with. You will have to pay interest on whatever money you borrow. Anywhere from 6-10%  This practice is percieved as risky though since if you lose the money you were loaned you will have to pay it back + the interest on the principal
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Intra-day trading is certainly for professionals. It takes a lot of committment but it is very possible for you to earn a great living. But it is just as easy to lose it all.\n\nIt requires a lot of time in front of the computer.\n\nBasically if you want ot day trade - in and out of a trade on the same day - well you have to be dependent on technicals as well as any news that the market is awaiting or is absorbing. and for private investors this up to date news is hard to obtain.\n\nTechnical charting day charts - make sure you have all the indicators in your system present as well as all the time scales that only cover the day: ticks. 1 minute, 2 minute, 5 minute, 1/2 hour, 1 hour.\n\nNot all indicators work in this short term environment.
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I've done that with what I call 'loose change'.  Sometimes I've got a few dollars sitting around, obviously not going to make a lot of interest and not large enough for something substantial.  If some risky thing has been going down but I still feel it worth holding onto (its kinda fun when you sweat over a $90 stock moving a couple of bucks while a stock selling for less than a dime now goes for a buck or two, and yes, I've had that happen), then making an extra small trade can average down the value of your position.  When the stock starts to tick up for whatever reasons, you now have a lower break-even or profit point.  Again, it is only if you've got a few bucks left not doing anything and at Scottrade for $7 plus a half-point, it doesn't hurt much.  Of course, I also got a couple that are cluttering up my list because it will cost more to sell than they are worth today but that is part of the risk, right?
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Day trading is buying and selling of a particular stock many times throughout the day.  Throughout the day, a stock price may change due to several things, such as volume (others buying or selling).  Day traders try to take advantage of this by buying the stock on the low swings, and selling it on the high swings.  It usually takes a lot of money to do this in order to make it worth your while.  Day traders often do this with several stocks at once.  \n\nMost on line brokers require a minimum cash account of around ten thousand dollars for you to day trade.  I can't remember the rules exactly, but Ameritrade, considers day trading as buying or selling of the same stock within a couple days.  And if you have two or three instances of this, they classify you as a day trader.\n\nStock options are something that employers offer to make a job more desirable.  Usually offering company stock on top of their normal pay.  Having stock in a company you work for also makes you care more about your company.
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Trade is Wholesale (transaction in Warehouses)  if you sell in bulks and at a cheaper price (list price).\n\nTrade is Retail when you are selling at stalls or stores using the standard price.  Wholesale prices are usually marked up to the suggested retail price (SRP).
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You won't lose more than you have invested. \n\nOnly idiots trade on margin when they don't know what they're doing.  So assuming you're not an idiot, and you're trading in cash only, you can't lose more than your initial investment.\n\n--J.
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Contribution margin is sales revenue less variable costs. It is the amount available to pay for fixed costs and provide any profit after variable costs have been paid.\n\nIn this case\ncontribution margin = 1,200,000 - 215,000 = 985,000\n\ncontribution margin percentage = 985,000/1200000 *100 = 82.1%
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If you have shares that you bought in the cash market, you can sell the shares ( assuming you are long in cash market) in futures market, that is called hedging. You do that essentially to protect ur downside risk in the cash market. A hedge in the derivatives market is created by assuming an offsetting position.
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"Trading account" is probably referring to stock trading account.  There are lots of places to open a stock trading account, for instance etrade.  The point is to buy and sell shares of company stock (partial ownership in companies).  It can be a gamble, so you better do a fair amount of research before throwing down money on any specific stock.
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All other contracts \n\nNo\n\n End of the third business day prior to the First Position Day (longs) or Last Trading Day (shorts) \n\n\nhttp://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/marginRequirements/physicalDeliveryLiquidationRules.php?ib_entity=llc
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you sell 100 shares of a stock that u have have at $1; u would have $100 in your margin account. When the company file by bankrupcy, the stock would be worthless. Let say it would trade for 2 cents; u buy it back for 2 cents to cover margins. u would have a profit of $98 minus commision and margin interest.
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A stock option is an offer or promise by a company to another party to sell to the other party company stock at a price at or below street value. If the offer is made at a price that is below street value, the company can expect to loose money on the transaction whenever the sale occurs. This for accounting purposes is recorded as a loss to the company, and losses reduce the income of the company - and the loss/reduced income is recorded before the corporate taxes are paid, so the loss is pre-tax.\n\nYou accountants out there feel free to blow me out of the water, if I'm not right, but this is the way my accountant buddy explained it to me.
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A special account where excess margin generated from a client's margin account is deposited. Also known as "special miscellaneous account".\n\nThe purpose of an SMA is to lock in any gains realized in a client's margin account. Consider the situation where stock within a client's margin account realizes a capital gain and creates excess margin. If this excess amount is held in the account and the stock position produces a capital loss at a later date, the client would lose his or her gain entirely.\n\nAn SMA can also hold interest and dividend payments from long positions and proceeds from closing out a securities position. Clients can use funds in their SMA to purchase additional securities for their margin account.
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They usually trade on the exchange of the underlying security.  Most have a small market so prices can be spotty.
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Intra-day trading means trading that occurred within one day.\n\nFor example, "today the stock kit a new intraday high" which means the price reached an all-tme high but fell to a lower price by the end of the day.