Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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A demand for additional funds when collateral behind a leveraged position falls below the required level.
Pay up or the broker sells for you — usually at the worst price, in the falling market that caused the call.
Someone who has to sell at whatever price is available, because of a margin call, a bill falling due, or an emergency with no cash behind it.
The market pays badly for urgency. Almost every plan that fails does so at the moment its owner stopped being able to choose the date of the sale.
A lender selling pledged shares in the open market after a margin call is not met.
The moment a promoter's personal finances become your share price problem.
An exchange framework that applies tighter trading conditions to a security on the basis of its price and volume behaviour, in a short-term and a long-term form.
It reacts to how the share has traded, not to anything the company did. The bite is 100% upfront margin, which usually reaches you as a rejected order or a margin call before you have read the circular.
Collateral required to hold a leveraged position, adjusted daily against market movements.
A margin call is the broker asking for more collateral, immediately.
The property that the order of returns, not just their values, determines the outcome.
Multiplication does not care about order. Drawdown limits, margin calls and your own nerve do — which is why sequence decides whether you were still there for the good part.
Borrowing by promoters against their own shareholding in the company.
A falling price triggers margin calls, forcing lenders to dump shares — which drives price lower still.
The core initial margin on a derivatives position, computed as the worst single-day loss across a grid of simulated price and volatility scenarios.
It rises when volatility rises, which is precisely the day the position is losing money. The margin call and the loss are correlated by design, and that correlation is what turns a bad session into a forced exit.