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Margin Calls Crush Leveraged Traders in Short Positions

Margin Calls Crush Leveraged Traders in Short Positions

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 Margin calls strike fear into traders using borrowed funds to amplify their bets, especially those holding short positions that bet on falling prices. In margin trading, you deposit collateral, or margin, to control a larger position—say, using 200 euros to leverage into a 1,000-euro trade with 5x power, as explained in Bitpanda's trading guide. Gains magnify beautifully: a 10% rise turns your stake into a 50% profit. But losses cut twice as deep—a 10% drop halves your capital, forcing you to pony up more or face closure.

Short positions flip this dynamic. You borrow an asset, sell it high, and aim to buy back low for profit. When prices surge instead, like silver's 147% rally in 2025 detailed by Investing.com analysts, shorts bleed fast. Leverage turns a modest uptick into catastrophe. Equity erodes as the asset's value climbs against you, dipping below required margin levels—often 60% for standard accounts or 30% for pros, per Exness explanations.

Enter the margin call: a broker's alert demanding fresh funds to restore your margin. Ignore it, and stop-out kicks in—automatic liquidation of positions to cap damage. In extreme volatility, prices gap wildly, skipping stops and wiping accounts, though negative balance protection in CFD trading, as outlined by EBC, ensures losses don't exceed your deposit, avoiding debt.

Shorts in trouble multiply during squeezes. Silver's explosive bounce to $84 exposed this brutally. Big banks like Citi and JP Morgan, heavy shorts, watched paper prices hit $70 while physical demand in Shanghai and India spiked premiums to $8 an ounce. CME Group hiked silver margins 47% to $32,500 on January 7, 2026—a "kill switch" per market commentary—forcing liquidations. In India, 44 trading firms folded under $425 million liabilities, crushed by sudden hikes they couldn't meet, their paper bets no match for physical reality.

These shorts scramble as "Great Divorce" widens: paper prices manipulated down via index rebalances and shorts, but real buyers in China and India hoard bars. Banks cry "overvalued" at $70, baiting stops, yet vaults empty faster. Leverage's double edge leaves shorts naked—margin calls cascade into forced sales, fueling the very rallies that doom them. Discipline and buffers help, but in squeezes, even giants retch.

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