{"id":2540,"date":"2026-06-08T05:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2026-09-07T03:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:22:46","slug":"additional-maintenance-margin-in-mtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/mtf\/additional-maintenance-margin-in-mtf\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Additional Maintenance Margin in MTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional Maintenance Margin is the extra margin that may be blocked for your MTF position when the stock\u2019s margin requirement increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In MTF, margin requirements can change based on exchange regulations. If the <strong>VaR %<\/strong> of an MTF stock increases, the required margin for that position increases as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the new margin requirement is higher than the margin already collected from you, Shoonya must collect the difference. This difference is called the <strong>Additional Maintenance Margin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can see this in your ledger as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cAdditional maintenance margin blocked\/released for MTF.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Example<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suppose you have \u20b920,000 in your account and use 3X MTF leverage.<br>This means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You bring: \u20b920,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shoonya funds: \u20b940,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total purchase value: \u20b960,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initial margin required: around 33.33%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, if the exchange margin requirement for the stock increases above 50%, the earlier margin collected may not be sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that case, Shoonya will block the additional required amount as <strong>Additional Maintenance Margin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This margin may be released later if the stock\u2019s <strong>VaR % decreases<\/strong> or when you exit the MTF position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional Maintenance Margin is the extra margin that may be blocked for your MTF position when the stock\u2019s margin requirement increases. In MTF, margin requirements can change based on exchange regulations. If the VaR % of an MTF stock increases, the required margin for that position increases as well. If the new margin requirement is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/mtf\/additional-maintenance-margin-in-mtf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is the Additional Maintenance Margin in MTF?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mtf","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoonya.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}