Excess margin

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Careful not to confuse with margin excess.

In the storied world of exchange traded derivatives, excess margin is margin your clearing broker requires over and above the margin required by the exchange on which the futures and options are traded. Nonetheless margin excess still counts as required margin, and is thus different from margin excess (I didn’t make up these names, don’t @ me).

See also

• Margin excess