Margin and collateral requirements vary from instrument to instrument and can be changed at any time to reflect market conditions.
For CFDs and options that have stocks as underlying instruments, the rating of the underlying stock will be the factor determining margin requirements. With a higher rating, the margin requirements for margin trading increase, while the collateral value decreases.
You can always check in advance whether a particular instrument will soon go through margin and/or collateral changes in the trading conditions > Instrument
You can access the trading conditions from the product overview clicking , the trade ticket clicking
or in the positions module by clicking the three dots
> Click Trading conditions.
Will I be notified if there are scheduled margin or collateral changes to my positions?
If you are holding a position that has scheduled trading condition changes, you will see a sign next to your cash value in the bottom left corner of the platform:
If you click this sign, you will open the Margin monitor, which will show the simulated impact that scheduled trading condition changes will have on your margin utilization on the day the changes come into effect.
What does the different colours mean?
You might discover, that the margin monitor can be displayed in different colours:
: Informative change
: Significant change
: Severe change