{"id":3957,"date":"2023-03-19T19:10:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T19:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/margin\/"},"modified":"2023-03-19T19:10:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T19:10:58","slug":"margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/margin\/","title":{"rendered":"Margin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMargin has different meanings in business and market context. Margin in stock markets can be the loan availed by a broking institution in order to make investments in equity and other related instruments.<br \/>\nMargin also means the difference in price which the big distributor retains after buying goods directly from the manufacturer and then passes these on to wholesalers\/retailers. The profit is the distributor\u2019s \u2018margin\u2019<br \/>\nIn stock markets, \u2018Margin\u2019 is defined as the difference between the amount of money a client has borrowed from the brokerage firm and the total worth of his\/her investment portfolio.<\/p>\n<h2>Margin Explained<\/h2>\n<p>Buying on \u2018Margin\u2019 is a common phenomenon and it entails keeping some money or assets as \u2018security\u2019 or \u2018collateral\u2019 and then availing balance as \u2018credit\u2019 from the Broker. In this buying on \u2018margin\u2019 the broker is the lender and the asset in the investor\u2019s account is the collateral or security.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margin has different meanings in business and market context. Margin in stock markets can be the loan availed by a broking institution in order to make investments in equity and other related instruments. Margin also means the difference in price which the big distributor retains after buying goods directly from the manufacturer and then passes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}