11.   Assuming that the future will be like the last century, your chance of getting a margin call is as high as one in eight during your first year.

12.   A margin call by a large shareholder and other planned sales put a drag on the stock.

13.   A margin call demands that the customer deposit enough money or stock to bring the account up to its minimum maintenance requirements.

14.   But Rick Eakle of Eakle Associates in Fair Haven, N.J. expects things could settle down early next week after the first few hours of margin calls on Monday.

15.   Customers must meet these requests, known as margin calls, with fresh money or with cash raised by selling stocks.

16.   Datek Online, another online firm, said Tuesday was one of the five heaviest days there for margin calls.

17.   Eckstein, who expected prices to fall, was quickly depleting capital, struggling to meet margin calls.

18.   Earlier this year, when many day traders received margin calls, they sold in unison, and the markets dropped precipitously.

19.   Even if you are financially able to meet all margin calls, you must still be willing to tolerate extraordinary volatility.

20.   For others, the treachery of margin calls was a new discovery this month.