What is peak margin?

What is peak margin?

The minimum margin has to be in the client's trading account before placing an order in any segment.
Clearing corporations will randomly take 4 snapshots at predefined time windows for arriving at such peak margin requirements on open positions during the day.

The highest margin requirement from these 4 snapshots will be the Peak Margin. This aims to curb the excessive leverage for intraday and derivatives positions.

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