The next morning, the story was much the same: margin calls were made for about $2.1 billion more.

So at what price would the investor be getting a margin call?

Deciding ahead of time how to deal with a margin call is important.

A person close to the family said they were prepared to cover a margin call if it happened.

He got a good lesson in something called "margin calls".

Some other shares have been sold to meet margin calls.

Many more have had to sell stocks to meet margin calls.

When the stock market started to contract, many individuals received margin calls.

"It allows a period when people can get prepared for margin calls."

The source said the company received a margin call on the loan about two weeks ago.

Today was the day traders, because of the significant move in gold, had to answer margin calls.

Imagine you have just received a margin call on your investments.

The second thing that might cause asset sales would be margin calls.

This kind of thing leads to margin calls and panic.

They have to sell other things to meet margin calls."

But the margin calls mounted and it ran out of capital.

Repeated, large margin calls are a obstacle as well, they said.

Margin calls are demands for additional funds to be used as security.

Margin calls, which in many cases, producers simply couldn't afford to make.

"Just getting a margin call is not that big a deal," Angel said.

You are not entitled to an extension of time on a margin call.

At this point, margin calls are certainly a pressure factor in the crude oil market.

The Company stated that it had over the past three weeks paid "very significant" margin calls.

Its price has fallen nearly 87 percent since then, hit by margin calls, according to brokers.

A trader, of course, can set it above that, if he does not want to be subject to margin calls.