{"id":6407,"date":"2026-09-25T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=6407"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:55:20","slug":"what-is-a-margin-call","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/resources\/glossary\/what-is-a-margin-call\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 es una llamada de margen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>llamada de margen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> es una notificaci\u00f3n de la plataforma de trading de que una cuenta ya no tiene suficiente margen disponible para mantener sus posiciones abiertas. Sucede cuando el mercado se mueve en contra de las operaciones abiertas y las p\u00e9rdidas reducen el capital de la cuenta por debajo del margen m\u00ednimo requerido para mantener esas posiciones abiertas. Si el margen no se restaura, la plataforma suele cerrar algunas o todas las operaciones abiertas autom\u00e1ticamente para devolver la cuenta a un territorio de margen aceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">En el trading minorista, una llamada de margen a menudo significa que el trader necesita depositar m\u00e1s fondos para mantener las posiciones. En el contexto de una firma de prop trading, esa opci\u00f3n no est\u00e1 disponible. El saldo de la cuenta es lo que la firma asign\u00f3, y los traders no pueden a\u00f1adir capital a ella. Cuando el margen es bajo en una cuenta fondeada, el nivel de stop-out de la plataforma toma el control, cerrando posiciones para proteger el saldo restante. El nivel de stop-out se establece t\u00edpicamente en un porcentaje espec\u00edfico del uso del margen, a menudo alrededor del 50%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La forma m\u00e1s fiable de evitar una llamada de margen es un tama\u00f1o de posici\u00f3n conservador combinado con stop losses en cada operaci\u00f3n. Porque las llamadas de margen en un entorno de firma de prop trading desencadenan cierres autom\u00e1ticos de posiciones, tambi\u00e9n pueden activar l\u00edmites de p\u00e9rdida diarios o incumplimientos de reducci\u00f3n m\u00e1xima dependiendo de c\u00f3mo las p\u00e9rdidas afecten la cuenta.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"glossary-category":[131],"class_list":["post-6407","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","glossary-category-trader-glossary"],"acf":{"target_keyword":"margin call ","glossary_post_image":"","key_takeaway":"Key Takeaway","key_takeaway_description":"A margin call is a notification that an account no longer has enough available margin to maintain its open positions. In prop firm trading, adding funds is not an option, so the platform closes positions automatically at the stop-out level to protect the remaining balance. ","faq":"<b>Can I deposit more funds to avoid a margin call on a funded account?<\/b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No. Funded accounts are provided by the prop firm, and traders cannot add their own capital. When margin runs low, the platform closes positions at the stop-out level to protect the remaining balance.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>What is the stop-out level?<\/b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The stop-out level is the margin percentage at which the platform starts closing positions automatically. It varies by firm and plan but often sits around 50%, meaning positions begin closing when the account's used margin exceeds half of the available equity.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>Does a margin call fail the challenge?<\/b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not directly, but the position closures triggered by a margin call can. If the losses from the closed positions push the account past the daily loss limit or maximum drawdown, that is what fails the challenge, not the margin call itself. Traders who reach a margin call have usually taken positions too large for the account they are trading.<\/span>"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/6407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propaccount.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-category?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}