With Margin trading you can trade on a small amount of money.
Trading on margin allows traders to take advantage of tradingopportunities without having to worryabout a huge capitalinvestment to acquire an asset.
Margin trading, on the other hand, entails using leverage toraise risk and potential returns. Marginis usuallyexpressed as a percentage of the size of the forex positions and varies per forex broker. In the forexmarket, a 1%margin is common, meaning that dealers can control $100,000 of currency with just $1,000.
Calculating marging example
Example
Suppose you want to borrow $30,000 to buy a stockthat you intend to hold for a period of10 days where the margininterest rate is 6% annually.
While margin can be used to increase profits if the price ofyour investment rises and you make aLeveraged purchase, itcan also increase losses if the price of your investment falls, resulting in a margin call, or the needto add more cash to your account to cover those paper losses.
Remember that whether you profit or lose on a trade, you willstill owe the same margin interest as theoriginaltransaction.