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Zerodha Broking Ltd is an Indian brokerage and financial services company, based in Bengaluru. It offers an electronic trading platform that facilitates institutional and retail trading of stocks , derivatives , currencies , commodities , mutual funds and bonds .
Buying on margin: What it means and how margin trading works. Brian Baker, CFA. April 17, 2024 at 9:33 PM. If you were to invest $10,000 in a good stock and get a 20 percent return, you’d make ...
Margin lending became popular in the late 1800s as a means to finance railroads. [1] In the 1920s, margin requirements were loose. In other words, brokers required investors to put in very little of their own money, whereas today, the Federal Reserve 's margin requirement (under Regulation T ) limits debt to 50 percent.
Within economics, margin is a concept used to describe the current level of consumption or production of a good or service. [1] Margin also encompasses various concepts within economics, denoted as marginal concepts , which are used to explain the specific change in the quantity of goods and services produced and consumed.
Special memorandum account (SMA) [1] is a margin credit account used for calculating US Regulation T requirements on brokerage accounts. In addition to Initial Margin and Maintenance Margin requirements, the SMA ledger is used to lock in unrealized gains that augment the client's buying power. According to Regulation T, Section 220.5: [2]
Profit margin is calculated with selling price (or revenue) taken as base times 100. It is the percentage of selling price that is turned into profit, whereas "profit percentage" or "markup" is the percentage of cost price that one gets as profit on top of cost price.
Markup (or price spread) is the difference between the selling price of a good or service and its cost.It is often expressed as a percentage over the cost. A markup is added into the total cost incurred by the producer of a good or service in order to cover the costs of doing business and create a profit.
The Margin-at-Risk (MaR) is a quantity used to manage short-term liquidity risks due to variation of margin requirements, i.e. it is a financial risk occurring when trading commodities. It is similar to the Value-at-Risk (VaR) , but instead of simulating EBIT it returns a quantile of the (expected) cash flow distribution.