Margin refers to all kinds of deposits deposited in banks and other financial institutions.
Under the background of the lack of clear legal norms of deposit, it is necessary to discuss the types of deposit, and define the deposit of reserve fund, advance payment, lease, decoration, deposit, deposit with return right and deposit with unparalleled return effect respectively to determine their respective legal effects.
When financing to buy securities in the securities market, investors need to pay their own funds.
Security deposit Margin paid by investors to companies engaged in related businesses when trading futures and options to ensure the performance of contractual obligations. This fund is only a down payment, not a part of the contract money.
The English for margin is: option price; ; Premium. Also: option premium; Royalties; Option contracts price. In the process of option trading, the deposit paid by the holder who opens a call option position to the seller who opens a put option position. It can be understood as the transaction price of the option contract. In the option trading market table published in the newspaper, the option premium is quoted as a multiple of 1/8 or116 of the market price of the exercise variety. Stock options take 100 shares as a trading unit. If the stock call option with a market value of 100 yuan is quoted at 5/8 yuan, it means that the right to buy a stock is 62.5 points, that is, 100 shares is 62.5 yuan. See: option price, option price.
Retention money and deposit: deposit also refers to the money retained by one or both parties to the contract or deposited in a third party to ensure the performance of the contract. There are two popular forms of deposit in real economic life: one is the deposit that the parties to a contract ask the other party to provide in order to ensure the realization of their creditor's rights.
For example, in the construction contract, when the project is settled, the construction party will keep part of the project payment payable as warranty money to ensure the performance of the construction party's warranty obligations; In case of engineering quality problems, if the construction party refuses to repair, the construction party can use the warranty money to repair itself or ask a third party to repair it.
Another form of deposit is the deposit paid by both parties to a third party (usually a notary office) recognized by * * * to ensure the performance of their respective obligations when the contract is established. Neither party may collect the deposit before all its contractual obligations are fulfilled. If one party breaches the contract, the other party can get liquidated damages or compensation from the deposit.