Lyle Daly is a personal finance writer who specializes in credit cards, travel rewards programs, and banking. He writes for The Ascent and The Motley Fool, and his work has appeared in USA Today and ...

A margin account is a brokerage account in which the broker lends the customer cash to purchase stocks or other financial ...

Margin debt continued to climb to new heights in October, reaching a new all-time high of $1.18 trillion. Read more here.

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a ...

Sometimes investors will borrow money from their broker to buy stocks or other securities through what’s known as a margin account. It’s a riskier practice than traditional investing, so strict rules ...

If you were to invest $10,000 in a good stock and get a 20 percent return, you’d make $2,000. But what if you could have borrowed another $10,000 to buy more stock and doubled your profits? When ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As thousands of homeowners are realizing it's unwise to borrow more than they can afford, the NASD is offering a similar warning to investors: It's risky to invest more than you ...