Customer Accounts – Stock Price Changes and Margin Requirements

Effect on Margin Account from a Stock Appreciation Returning to the example, say the UVW stock appreciated and closed yesterday at $50: $5000 Long Market Value ($2000) Debit Balance $3000 … Continue Reading →

Customer Accounts – Margin Account Calculations

Now that you have the background to understand how margin accounts work, it is time to focus on buying power for normal equities. Long Market Value The long market value … Continue Reading →

Buying Power and Excess Margin

Buying Power  What is Buying Power (Excess Equity)?  There are two things you can do with your $1400 in excess equity  There is one thing you cannot do with excess … Continue Reading →

Margin Calls

Meeting margin calls In order to protect investors from over extending their margin purchases, the Investment Dealers Association and the exchanges have established what is called a “minimum margin requirement.” … Continue Reading →

Margin Buying Power

Margin Buying Power is the amount of money an investor has available to buy securities in a margin account. It is the total cash held by the investor in a … Continue Reading →

Fidessa adds BlueBox to hosted Asian Trading Platform

Fidessa group plc (LSE:FDSA) has announced the addition of  BlueBox, its fully-integrated algorithmic trading engine, to its  hosted Asian trading platform for brokers. BlueBox provides  access to pre-built, industry standard … Continue Reading →

Order

Hybrid orders, such as market-to-limit Conditional orders, such as stops and trailing stops Hidden and iceberg orders Discretional orders, such as pegged orders Routed orders, such as pass-through orders VWAP

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What is a Market Maker and How do Market Makers Make Money

What is a Market Maker? You probably take for granted that you can buy or sell a stock at a moment’s notice. Place an order with your broker, and within … Continue Reading →