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by xchaotic 2049 days ago
If this is just retirement money, so what? It rebounded pretty well since.
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if you have have 100% margin and the market falls 50%, the broker will close out all your positions at a large loss to protect its own assets (often well before the 50% target), at which point it will not matter how much the market rebounds after that