MarketFoolery: 09.22.2014

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🗓️ 22 September 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

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We dip into the Fool Mailbag to answer questions about energy, healthcare IT and buying on margin.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, September 22nd. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm
0:05.6	Priscill joining me in studio today from Motleyville 1, Jason Moser and
0:08.9	from Stock Advisor Canada Taylor Muckerman. Happy Monday, Jents.
0:13.0	As I said last Monday, boy, September in D.C.
0:17.0	The weather this weekend.
0:18.0	Yeah, it's been stellar.
0:19.0	It's been fantastic.
0:21.0	Once again, it is a mail bag Monday. You can always email us.
0:24.5	Radio at fool.com is our email address and on Twitter we are at market foolery.
0:29.7	Let's get right to the questions.
0:31.2	A question from Jake on Twitter.
0:34.0	Technically his handle is at Jake Geek Tech.
0:37.1	Can you explain special maintenance requirement?
0:41.3	I went to buy shares of InvenSence and saw that it had an SMR of 50% which scared me off.
0:48.6	I'll be honest, Jason, this is the first time I've seen this phrase.
0:51.8	First of all, what is a special maintenance requirement?
0:54.8	Okay, so that's a good question.
0:56.1	And typically what that refers to is if you are trading on margin
1:00.4	in your account, so unless you're using margin in your account, then that doesn't really matter.
1:05.3	And margin is when you're borrowing money to buy more stocks.
1:07.4	And so the special maintenance requirement, or the separate maintenance requirement is it's the minimum amount of
1:14.8	equity that must be maintained in your margin accounts so you know when you buy a
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