{"id":1084,"date":"2009-11-20T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T08:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2009-11-20T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T08:55:43","slug":"how-to-find-if-a-stock-is-marginable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/how-to-find-if-a-stock-is-marginable\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find if a Stock is Marginable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays , many\u00a0 brokerage and investment firms allows their customer to have Margin on their account. Margin is a simple way to increase your buying power and cash available by simply pledging your current investments as collateral.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Below are the most basic rules :<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, a stock has to trade above the set limit\u00a0 per share for 5 consecutive days before it can be bought or moved into Margin. Also, if a stock is between set minimum\u00a0 and mximum level per share, the brokerage firm might increase the requirement levels of the account.<\/li>\n<li>A stock has to trade on a major exchange before it can be marginable. The NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX are all major exchanges. No Over-The-Counter(OTC) or Bulletin Board stocks can be put in Margin. Also no thinly traded or &#8220;Pink Sheet&#8221; stocks are marginable.<\/li>\n<li>The stock cannot be listed on any brokerage firm restricted lists. Depending on where your account is held, some brokerage houses have restrictions against certain stocks to be in Margin. A good example of this would be a highly volatile, low priced stock.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, the stock has to be considered Common or Preferred in order to be in Margin. Mutual Funds are also allowed. In some cases, ETFs, UIT&#8217;s and REIT&#8217;s are allowed to be in Margin as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays , many\u00a0 brokerage and investment firms allows their customer to have Margin on their account. Margin is a simple way to increase your buying power and cash available by simply pledging your current investments as collateral. Below are the most basic rules : First, a stock has to trade above the set limit\u00a0 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3398,2918,3395,3397,857,2901,3396],"class_list":{"0":"post-1084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-bonds-and-annuities","8":"tag-broker","9":"tag-brokerage-firm","10":"tag-realiable-broker","11":"tag-shares","12":"tag-stock","13":"tag-stock-tips","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}