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Re: strongtower post# 18357

Wednesday, 01/09/2008 7:45:57 PM

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:45:57 PM

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Oanda and most other brokers use the term "margin" to denote your actual cash on deposit. Your buying power is your margin times your leverage. So if you have $100,000 on deposit (your "margin") and your leverage is set to 50:1 then you have buying power of $5,000,000.

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