Earnings Releases can result in large favourable moves in a stock's price; they can also result in a significant negative move in a stock's price often without any opportunity to exit the trade as it moves against you. We may double the margin requirements on specific stocks prior to these releases. This is a preventative measure so that traders will not fall to a negative equity.

For more information on individual equity margin requirement rates, please visit our Trading Conditions page.

For more information on how to calculate margin requirements, please visit the Individual Equities Margin Calculation section at the bottom of the Trading Conditions page.