
What is trading margin?
Margin is the capital required to open a leveraged position, enabling you to amplify gains and losses by increasing your exposure to the market.
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Margin is the capital required to open a leveraged position, enabling you to amplify gains and losses by increasing your exposure to the market.

🟢 Long: you buy thinking the price will go up → you win if it goes up. 🔴 Short: you sell thinking the price will go down → you win if it goes down. In both cases, the aim is the same: to profit from the price difference, but the order (buy/sell) is reversed.

⚡ Leverage: allows you to trade with more money than your actual capital. It amplifies gains... but also losses. The higher the leverage, the greater the risk.