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Forex Margin & Margin CallWhile Forex brokers allow traders to trade money ten times more than what's been actually invested, brokers always know that traders never lose money beyond their real investments. The warranty here is Margin. Margin in Forex identifies a requirement for the trading account to have certain amount of real funds on balance as a collateral to cover any possible losses. In other words, a margin prevents traders from losing virtual money (the money they don't have). Margin requirements vary from broker to broker and depend on the leverage being offered. Example: Leverage — Margin table
So, at 20:1 leverage a trader required to have 5% of the value of each open position in the account intact. This equals to $500 on hold per each lot of 10 000 units. ($10 000 * 5% = $500) Available margin, Free margin, Usable margin — all are the synonyms used by different Forex brokers — the margin that regulates the allowance for your trading appetite: A trader can not open a trading position which exceeds his Available margin; and/or keep an old position running if the Available margin is completely drained out, e.g. equals 0.
Maintenance margin, Required margin, Used margin — also are synonyms, which suggest funds that are in use, currently locked in order to maintain currently open trades. In other words, a Margin call occurs when due to losses trader's Account Equity (balance + the sum of all floating profit/losses) becomes equal to the Used margin and/or slips a fraction beyond it.
Margin call simply means that all or a certain part of open trades will be closed in order to prevent further losses beyond the real account balance. No trader ever wants to receive a margin call and have his/her running trades closed despite own will.
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