why is the portfolio margin leverage requirement 15%?


am i misunderstanding this, or if I have 125k and 100k liquidity and 1 dollar of someone else's money i can trade on 15% instead of on 50%

reading about this brought me to December 24th 2020, when they decreased the margin required by 5%, which brought me to

Roisman was appointed by President Donald J. Trump to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and was sworn into office on September 11, 2018. Mr. Roisman was designated Acting Chairman of the Commission by President Trump on December 23, 2020, effective December 24, 2020.

36 days to next president and their changing commodity futures rules? no wonder why the price is skyrocketing

https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2020/34-90244.pdf

we increased their risk, but decreased the barrier to entry, hence the flood of capital, hence the increased prices


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