Your 'Used Margin’ section will reflect in either of these two scenarios:
From your total 'Available to Trade' balance, when funds are used for trading, this amount will be shown in 'Used Margin’ as a positive amount. The possible scenarios when this may happen are:
- You buy stock in the Equity Delivery segment.
- You buy or short-sell a stock in the Equity Intraday segment.
- You buy or short-sell a Derivatives (Futures & Options) contract in Intraday or Delivery.
- You carry forward an open position to the next trading day for either a Futures contract or an Options contract (on the short side only).
Whenever you successfully sell a Delivery position, the amount will be receivable by you, and this will be shown as a negative amount in 'Used Margin'. The possible scenarios for this are:
- You successfully sell stock in the Equity Delivery segment (from your Demat account).
- You sell an open position (on the buy-side) in the Options segment.
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