Well..imagine if you as a trader would never get the "margin-call" and you would be able to defer the currebt payments until you cash in your future bets. Here

Well..imagine if you as a trader would never get the "margin-call" and you would be able to defer the currebt payments until you cash in your future bets. Here we have the banks simply bailed out by the gov(i.e the tax payer gets the short stick while JP Morgan gets the long stick).