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Check your account positions from any telephone with Touchtone Trading. Read More

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Margin borrowing can increase your buying power, but it also increases your risk. Learn how margin borrowing and trading works, including how to calculate margin interest and buying power.

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Help & How To

This section details the minimum and recommended technical requirements for using ScottradeELITE.

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Prior notification of a liquidation of a margin account by a broker after a margin call has failed to produce additional equity to bring the margin to the required level. Read More

Investment Education

To place an opening transaction in your margin account, you must have a minimum percentage of equity in your account to trade, presently set at 10% but subject to change at any time. Read More

Help & How To

Check your account balances from any phone using Touchtone Trading. Read More

Help & How To

Quick Reference guide for using Touchtone trading, including Main Menu choices, hot keys and helpful hints. Read More

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Retrieve your open orders on any telephone with Touchtone Trading. Read More

Investment Education

Regular market hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern Time. Extended hours trading is also available for NASDAQ National Market and Listed Securities on normal market days and half-day market holidays, but no trading, regular or extended hours, is available on market holidays. Read More

Investment Education

The margin requirement is the amount of equity that must be maintained in a margin account.

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