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Increased Margin Requirements

  • #1
  • First Post: Aug 16, 2007 3:46pm Aug 16, 2007 3:46pm
Has anyone been notified that their margin requirements are being increased temporarily?

About an hour ago I received an email from a broker about brokers increasing margin requirements because of increased volatility. None of the other brokers I have money with are doing this at the moment. Is this marketing or a reality for very high margin accounts?
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Although we are experiencing extreme volatility in the foreign exchange markets, XXXXXXXXXXXX would like to clarify categorically that we are not increasing our % margin requirements on spot FX trading, including gold & silver. We understand that some FX brokers have doubled their margin requirements recently.

Please contact your account manager if you need to discuss your account.
  • #2
  • Last Post: Aug 16, 2007 4:26pm Aug 16, 2007 4:26pm
Some futures broker (IB for example) increased the margins on index-futures recently, due to the recent volatility. Exhanges alter o/n margin-requirements too on a fairly routine basis.
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