Margin is the money that the trader deposits into the designated account as a guarantee as required. There are many kinds of deposit, such as the deposit that customers must pay to open a foreign exchange trading account; The trading margin that a customer account must have at the beginning of a transaction.

In margin trading, buyers and sellers only need to pay a small amount of margin to brokers. Margin is a financial guarantee that the exchange requires investors to provide to ensure their performance. It is a sum of money deposited in the investor's account, which shows the credibility of being responsible for the trading positions held by them.

Precautionary measures for deposit

In order to handle margin business, a multi-currency account opened by a customer in a bank for deposit of margin deposits can set up sub-accounts with different currencies under the main account, and the settlement account, margin deposit account and settlement account currency are recorded when the sub-account is set up. The subsidiary ledger is related to the corresponding business through the deposit number or deposit type code and business number.

The margin sub-ledger opened under the margin master account for a specific business and a specific currency will be returned to the settlement account for external payment when the margin is paid.