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- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Margin: Borrowing Money to Pay for Stocks
Excellent resource for finding out what margin trading is, an overview of the rules that govern margin trading, and the advantages and disadvantages.
- Bankrate.com: What in the World is Margin Trading?
"Margin accounts allow investors to buy a lot of shares with a relatively small amount of cash up front by using the assets currently held in their accounts as collateral."
- BusinessWeek Online: Those Painful Margin Calls: Brokers Share the Blame
"It's their responsibility to do everything possible to let clients know just how risky margin investing is." (5/11/00)
- Capital District Business Review: Buying on Margin Carries Risks, Especially in a Volatile Market
"There is much confusion about what rights a customer has when it comes to meeting a margin call, and what rights a firm has when it appears that a customer's account may be headed toward a net debit..." (2/5/01)
- IFS: International Financial Systems: Margin Man
Software solutions for margin traders with a broad range of functionality.
- Investment Strategies: Trading on Margin: Double Your Pleasure or Double Trouble? Look Before You Leap!
Explains the concept of trading on margin with cautionary notes as well as benefits.
- Marvin: Margin Made Easy
Web based margin calculators for house excess, day trading buying power and margin scenario testing.
- Money.com: The Margin-debt Hole: How Deep is Too Deep?
"Borrowing money to play the stock market is both alluring and dangerous." (4/00)
- NASD Regulation: Margin Information
Provides information about margin including rule filings and electronic margin trading.
- TheStandard: Living Off the Margins
"Online brokerages, suffering amid lower trading, have another headache: Their lucrative margin-trading business is in a slump." (3/12/01)
- Tokyo Stock Exchange: What is Margin Trading?
Brief description of margin trading.
- Tradeworx.com: Investing on Margin
Tutorials on various aspects of margin trading, including how margin trading can affect your portfolio and what a margin call means to you. Also links to calculators that can show the effects of leverage, the cost of margin, and the risk of a margin call.
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