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In a cash account, all trades must be settled in cash on the settlement date, which occurs two days after the trade date for most securities. A margin account, however, is quite different. If you ...

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Margin accounts allow investors to borrow against their portfolios to buy more securities. Margin can turbocharge your returns when stocks go up, as profits are made on the full position size ...

A margin account is a brokerage account in which the broker lends the customer cash to purchase stocks or other financial ...