Why I am getting MARGIN CALL Email?

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I Have in my Zerodha Account
Collateral (Liquid funds)- 62,045.60
Collateral (Equity)- 65,640.66
Total collateral = 1,27,686.26
Available cash = 21,854.90
Available margin = 1,49,541.16

I traded a Bear-call spread today (Intraday MIS Order)
i.e BUY 25250 CALL 21 AUG &
SELL NIFTY 24950 CALL 21 AUG
For this Margin Needed is 51,877 INR and
Funds Needed 60,003 INR

Then why did I receive this mail from Zerodha
Margin Call
EQUITY margin utilisation for TI**** has reached 131.99% of available balance. Add funds immediately on Login to Kite by Zerodha - Fast, easy trading and investment platform. Positions can be squared off if margins are insufficient. Team Zerodha **

Can anyone please explain what the problem is?
Why I am getting MARGIN CALL Email ?
Can I take Overnight order with this Fund ?

@nithin_kumrr
@Arockiya_Raja

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@Ragavendran_M can you check?

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Please DM your client ID, and we will verify it and let you know.

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You placed any order to close buy leg? can be target or stop loss

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I have sent my Zerodha ID

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While closing the hedge positions, you have exited your long position a few seconds before exiting the short position. As the short position is left open for a few seconds margin call is triggered.
Once all positions are closed, funds will be released, which you can use for further trades.

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19.08.25
19.08.251129×209 21.6 KB

14.08.25
14.08.251106×207 22.4 KB

Please review the order book. I didn’t get margin call Mail on 14th Aug but on 19th Aug I got the mail

I have placed the order from Sensibull and exited from Zerodha (Exit all option) . In order placing and exiting there is not 1 second gap.

Please let me know how I can avoid this, because if I put a basket order and exit all in one click it will happen again.

If it’s done daily, then do I get a penalty for that ???

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Its due to few milli second difference between buy and sell orders. If exchange takes screenshot on that point of time there is possibility of peak margin penalty. To avoid this you can exit the short position first then you can close your long position.

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