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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 .
He is the co-founder of Zerodha, a retail stockbroker, and True Beacon, an asset management company. [3] [4] [5] Kamath is a part of the 2024 Forbes World Billionaires List with a net worth of $3.1 billion. [6] [7] He, along with his brother Nithin, is also part of Forbes' list of India’s 100 Richest for 2024. [8]
In the United States, a pattern day trader is a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) designation for a stock trader who executes four or more day trades in five business days in a margin account, provided the number of day trades are more than six percent of the customer's total trading activity for that same five-day period.
A margin account is a loan account with a broker which can be used for share trading. The funds available under the margin loan are determined by the broker based on the securities owned and provided by the trader, which act as collateral for the loan. The broker usually has the right to change the percentage of the value of each security it ...
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]
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.
For analogous reasons, short positions in derivatives also usually involve the posting of margin with the counterparty. Any failure to post margin promptly would prompt the broker or counterparty to close the position. Short selling is a common practice in public securities, futures, and currency markets that are fungible and reasonably liquid.
A margin of safety (or safety margin) is the difference between the intrinsic value of a stock and its market price. Another definition: In break-even analysis , from the discipline of accounting , margin of safety is how much output or sales level can fall before a business reaches its break-even point.