Margin interest

Margin interest is what a US broker charges, daily, on cash it lends you to buy shares. A perpetual contract has no loan and no margin interest; its holding cost is funding, paid between traders, which one held position shows landing.

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In the help centreSee how leverage and margin work on Mochatrade
  • Overnight financing / swap feeOvernight financing, or a swap fee, is the daily interest a broker charges for holding a leveraged position past the…
  • Margin tradingMargin trading is taking a position larger than your deposit, the margin. A US broker lends you cash at interest; on a…
  • Notional valueNotional value is the full size of a position, price times quantity, whatever margin backs it: ₹50,000 of exposure on…
  • Cost of carryCost of carry is what it costs to hold a position over time: storage, insurance and interest, minus any income. It is…
  • Perpetual futuresPerpetual futures are contracts that track an asset's price with no expiry date. Expiry is what pulls a normal future…
  • Short sellingShort selling is selling a borrowed share to buy it back cheaper. The loss is open-ended if the price rises, the…

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