In the new world of free trading on stocks and ETFs, online brokerages appear to be making up for some of their lost revenue through higher volumes of risky bets investors are making via options and ...

Margin lets investors use debt to gain a greater exposure to underlying assets. Margin can be used with trading stocks, cryptocurrency, options, ETFs and futures. Margin is like many types of debts ...

The rapid acceleration in investors’ use of margin debt in trading calls to mind the meme stock frenzy and dot-com bubble. Investors are trading on margin like it’s 1999. Debt balances in investors’ ...

If you were to invest $10,000 in a good stock and get a 20 percent return, you’d make $2,000. But what if you could have borrowed another $10,000 to buy more stock and doubled your profits? When ...

The amount of money investors owe to their brokers to buy securities via margin accounts is at a level not seen in three years, a potential sign of excess exuberance in the market. Investors' debt ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a leading provider of order management systems, risk and margin solutions and trading platforms to the capital markets worldwide, today announced ...

TOKYO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Trading using borrowed money, or margin trading, in Japan's stock market fell sharply last week as investors were forced to dump stocks during the Nikkei index's biggest fall ...

Investors are trading on margin like it’s 1999. Debt balances in investors’ margin accounts topped $1 trillion in June, a new record, according to data from Finra, the brokerage industry’s ...