{"id":3958,"date":"2023-03-08T20:19:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/margin-call\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T20:19:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:19:38","slug":"margin-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/margin-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Margin Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA Margin call refers to the demand made by the broker to a client for depositing money or securities into the margin account.<br \/>\nMargin call can be made when a purchase is made in excess of the value of the margin account or when the value of a client  account decreases because the value of the securities held decreases, either due to price fluctuation in markets or because new purchases have been made.<\/p>\n<h2>Margin Call Explained<\/h2>\n<p>A broker extends a loan or credit to clients against a margin or collateral, which can be cash or securities. An investor\u2019s margin account will have financial assets bought with his\/her own funds as well as those availed from the broker through margin.<br \/>\nA margin call occurs when the investor\u2019s equity in a margin account falls below the broker\u2019s required level. This generally happens when the value of securities in a client&#8217;s margin account have decreased.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Margin call refers to the demand made by the broker to a client for depositing money or securities into the margin account. Margin call can be made when a purchase is made in excess of the value of the margin account or when the value of a client account decreases because the value of [&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-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","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=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}