variation margin

variation margin definition - finance
The funds needed to bring a trading account balance up to required levels. A calculation of profits and losses on open positions is made at the end of each trading day, and the trader is notified if his or her account has fallen below the minimum required in a margin call.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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