# Investing Math – Margin Call Price Calculator

> Investing Math – Margin Call Price Calculator is a paid API for AI agents from invest-math.x402tookit.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Calculates the margin call trigger price for shares bought on margin, given the number of shares, purchase price, cash invested, and maintenance margin requirement.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://invest-math.x402tookit.com/margin-call?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/investing-math-margin-call-price-calculator-eb56df44
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_paP9zz4rdbY8P_9GUfyCX

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## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability investing-math-margin-call-price-calculator-eb56df44
```

Example prompt: I bought 100 shares of a stock at $50 each using 50% initial margin — what price will trigger a margin call if the maintenance requirement is 25%?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a fast, precise margin call price calculation for a standard equity margin account given purchase price, share count, and margin percentages. It is purpose-built for this specific calculation and returns a structured breakdown including leverage, loan amount, and drop percentages — more detailed than a generic finance formula. Prefer it over general-purpose calculators or LLM math when accuracy and structured output matter.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query parameters (shares or price) returns an error
- Invalid values such as negative share counts or prices outside expected ranges may produce errors or unexpected results
- Maintenance margin percentage outside 10–60 range may be rejected or clamped to defaults
- Initial margin percentage outside 10–100 range may be rejected or defaulted to 50%
- Network or service unavailability returns a non-200 response

## How this service works

Margin call price for shares bought on margin: your cash, the loan, the maintenance requirement and the trigger price.

## Output

Returns the margin call trigger price, total loan amount, own cash contributed, current position value, leverage ratio, percentage drop required to trigger a margin call, percentage drop to full wipeout, a plain-language summary and verdict, plus a disclaimer. May include a list of factors not checked and a degraded flag if the calculation ran with limited information.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "shares",
      "price"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "price": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Purchase price per share"
      },
      "shares": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Shares bought"
      },
      "maintenancePct": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Maintenance margin in percent of position value, 10 to 60 (default 25)"
      },
      "initialMarginPct": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Share of the purchase paid with your own cash, 10 to 100 (default 50)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "loan": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "ownCash": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "reasons": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "leverage": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "disclaimer": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "notChecked": {
       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
       ],
       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "dropToCallPct": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "positionValue": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "
… (truncated)
```

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