Maintenance call

Maintenance call. A call for more money or securities to be deposited into a brokerage client's margin account.

Maintenance call
A call for additional money or securities when a margin account falls below its exchange-mandated required level.
Maintenance fee
A yearly charge to maintain brokerage accounts, such as asset management accounts or IRAs.

Maintenance call: In a margin account, the broker/dealer demand for additional funds to restore the equity to the minimum maintenance level.

House Maintenance Call
Demand to the customer for additional funds from the brokerage firm because the equity in the customer's margin account has fallen below the minimum amount allowed by the firm.
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Maintenance call: A "call" for additional funds or acceptable collateral to be immediately deposited into your margin account to satisfy the Regulation T and house maintenance requirements for the purchase or short sale of securities or as a result ...

maintenance call The maintenance call, also called a margin call, is a demand by the broker/dealer... maintenance fee A charge assessed on some types of brokerage accounts, such as asset management...

This is sometimes called a "fed call" or "maintenance call".
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Appropriate ongoing adjustments to security holder records.
Maintenance call
A call for additional money or securities when a margin account falls below its exchange-mandated required level.
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A broker's demand on an investor using margin to deposit additional money or securities so that the margin account is brought up to the minimum maintenance margin. This is sometimes called a "fed call" or "maintenance call".

If a margin call cannot be met the brokerage will sell securities held in the account until the margin requirement is met. Failure to meet a margin call can therefore result in a considerable loss. Sometimes referred to as a maintenance call.

See also: Margin account, Margin call, Minimum maintenance, Short Sale, Market Order