Therefore, only margin accounts can be used to open a short position.

With a margin account, you can buy on credit.

Since 1992, it has provided shares of 50 to 100 funds from margin accounts to customers who want to go short.

If you've got your heart set on making that investment, though, you can open a margin account.

Instead, the brokers called the loans a credit line rather than a margin account, the former customers said.

Now, stocks are so popular that a state government has opened a margin account.

To be fair, this is not really a margin account.

A margin account, on the other hand, is more like a loan or a line of credit.

Individual margin accounts are a principal source of share borrowing.

If the margin account gets too low, they have to replenish it.