If you must trade on margin in a volatile market, here are some things to keep in mind

After the carnage in the stock market on 21st January, Prakash Shetty (name changed), an investor, called to complain that his broker had compulsorily squared-up his trades at the lowest prices for the day causing him a huge loss. Shetty has been trading for over two decades, but was still in a soup. In...