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Margin Call

A notification that your account equity has fallen below the required margin level.

What is Margin Call in forex trading?

A notification that your account equity has fallen below the required margin level. If funds are not added or positions closed, the broker may forcibly close trades (Stop Out) to prevent negative balance.

What this looks like across the brokers we track

Across the 40 brokers BrokerAnalysis tracks, advertised maximum leverage ranges from 1:30 to 1:3000, with a median of 1:500. 10 of them cap retail leverage at 1:30 or lower, which is the ceiling EU and UK rules impose.

Measured across 40 entities in the BrokerAnalysis dataset. See the full broker comparison

Detailed Explanation

If funds are not added or positions closed, the broker may forcibly close trades (Stop Out) to prevent negative balance.

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