Nowadays, an exchange-traded fund can do the heavy lifting for you, no margin required.

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Since the CME raised the margin downpayment required of gold derivative traders by one-quarter early in August ( widely reported, but hey, pundits take holidays too) leverage across-the-board in New York gold futures stands at 25-to-1.

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Changing the impeachment trial's rules would have required a two-thirds margin, or 67 votes.

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Options and futures often carry higher commissions than equity trades and investors in futures will be required to maintain a minimum margin.

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The Star Tribune reported that the race was almost certainly headed to a recount as, under state law, recounts are required in races with a winning margin of less than one half of 1%.

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Put more simply, in March, commodities exchanges required traders to keep only a fraction of the value of a contract in their margin account.

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As this article notes, after McClendon had to sell 94 percent of his Chesapeake shares because of those margin calls, he no longer held the equity stake that his prior employment agreement required.

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Futures brokers were required to disclose the holders of large positions to regulators in real time, and to strictly observe margin limits.

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