{"id":26671,"date":"2026-04-05T19:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=26671"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:04:36","slug":"what-happens-if-there-is-a-margin-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/article\/what-happens-if-there-is-a-margin-shortfall\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens if There is a Margin Shortfall?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A margin shortfall occurs when the value of your pledged collateral falls below the required margin level&nbsp; usually because the market price of your pledged shares has dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What happens when a shortfall is triggered:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><strong>Alert sent<\/strong> &#8211; Samco notifies you immediately via SMS and email<\/li><li><strong>Action required<\/strong> &#8211; You need to either add funds to your account or pledge additional eligible holdings to cover the gap<\/li><li><strong>If not resolved<\/strong> &#8211; Samco may square off your open positions and, if that is not sufficient, sell the pledged collateral to recover the outstanding amount<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht_kb_category":[2889],"ht_kb_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26673,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26671\/revisions\/26673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=26671"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=26671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}