How is Used Stock Indices Margin Calculated?

Used Stock Margin

What is Used Stock Indices Margin? : amount of money on your account which has already been used when buying a trade order, this stock order is the one that is displayed and shown in open trades. As a trader you can't use this amount/sum of money after opening a trade because you have already used it & it isn't available to you.

In other terms, because your online broker has opened up a trade for you using the capital you've borrowed, you must maintain this usable margin for your trading account as a security collateral to allow you to continue using this leverage that the broker has assigned you.

Explanation of How is Used Margin Calculated on MT4?

The margin examples in MT4 below, the set leverage is 100 : 1, the margin which is 1 percentage is $2683.07 dollars, henceforth the total sum controlled by trader is: $268,307 - this is because with this leverage the trader has used little of his money and borrowed the rest of the money, with this set at 100:1, trader is using 1 % of their capital, this 1 percentage equals to $2683.07, if 1% equals to $2683.07 dollars then 100% is $268,307

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