What is maintenance margin?Maintenance Margin
The minimum margin your account must keep; fall below it and you'll be asked to top up.
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Contracts with no expiry date use a "funding rate" to stay close to spot: longs and shorts regularly pay each other a fee.
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Futures only require part of the value as margin, but P&L is settled at the settlement price every day at the close. Drop below maintenance margin and you must top up.
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Borrow from your broker to buy stock: you make more when it rises and lose faster when it falls. See where the price must drop to trigger a margin call.
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