All In On Margin
StatsEdgeTrading
After a short recording break, Dave and I sat down and immediately hit a question every systematic trader faces:
“I just got a margin-call warning—am I doing something wrong, or incredibly right?”
If your risk is controlled, that warning is usually a green light. In this episode we explain how maxing out buying power can increase returns and outline a process for turning the warning into an edge.
Action Steps for Traders
Record buying-power utilisation – dump it to a spreadsheet; notice which names choke capacity.
Re-run the back-test – see what you missed when BP was maxed.
Decide: cap, cull, or keep big positions.
Iterate weekly – walk that razor’s edge where every idle dollar is a missed return.
Quote of the episode
“Running out of buying power doesn’t mean stop trading—
it means your job just shifted from finding edge to optimising edge.”
Free resources
Intro to Trading – totally free mini-course
Build-Your-Own Trading Plan – free step-by-step framework
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