Margin account
Last updated October 15, 2025
A margin account is used to hold and collateralize your derivatives positions. Each margin account can only hold contracts for which sharing of PnL and/or cross-margining is enabled. For example, you will need a specific margin account to hold a position in a contract which is isolated margined.
On the other hand, each of your margin accounts enables:
- offsetting losses from one position with profits another, and enabling leveraging of all portfolio profits immediately;
- offsetting and reducing margin requirements, by recognizing the P&L offset that can happen between positions.
- and, finally, offsetting both P&L and margin across exchanges, by aggregating all positions into a single settlement and clearing layer.
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