单词 | to buy on margin |
释义 | > as lemmasto buy (also trade, etc.) on margin a. A sum deposited by a speculator with a broker to cover the risk of loss on a transaction on account; now esp. in to buy (also trade, etc.) on margin.In futures markets, buying on margin enables a speculator to trade securities to a high value with a relatively small investment; cf. leverage n. Additions c. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > payments to seller or broker margin1848 backwardation1850 contango1853 backwardization1865 1848 W. Armstrong Stocks 10 The purchaser then hands over this margin to the person with whom he hypothecates the Stock. 1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 62 Seven per cent a year is generally allowed on all margins advanced by customers. 1880 Harper's Mag. Oct. 782/2 All speculated, but they did not speculate on margins. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 July 5/1 Egyptian Unified bonds went crawling down to below 48, and alarmed bankers were sending after their ‘margins’. 1883 St. James's Gaz. 1 Nov. In Liverpool sales of cotton for future delivery are made without any deposit of ‘margins’. 1885 Harper's Mag. Mar. 611/1 The speculators were..caught without any margin. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. xcii. 288 Ohio punishes by fine and imprisonment the offering to sell ‘options’ or exhibiting any quotations of the prices of ‘margins’, ‘futures’, or ‘options’. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 11 Nov. 11/3 The bulk of the shares in what are called the speculative lines are held by speculators on margin. 1934 S. S. Huebner Stock Market xxiii. 434 If the customer purchases stock worth $100 and deposits $20 as margin,..he has a margin of 20 per cent. 1971 Investors Chronicle's Beginners, Please (ed. 5) 310 The latter [sc. the broker] makes an interest charge..and receives from his client..sufficient to maintain an adequate ‘margin’ to protect the broker against fluctuations in the value of the collateral. 1992 Economist 22 Feb. 92/1 Schwab is now able to check in the course of the day on the collateral positions of customers who are trading on margin. < as lemmas |
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