I'm trying to wrap my head around the basics of margin trading. I understand that a broker is basically extending you a loan to purchase some stock, with the collateral for that loan being the other stocks and cash in your account.
What I haven't been able to figure out is, how does one basically repay that loan, without selling the stock in question? For example, I buy $1,000 worth of MSFT on a margin account, and I want to keep that stock long-term. Basically, how do I settle that loan with my broker, so that I "own" the stock outright? (I suspect I'm not using quite the correct terminology here, but I hope the substance of my question is communicated clearly enough.)
Submitted December 29, 2017 at 10:09AM by gmdm1234 http://ift.tt/2E9lAvg
