If the stock price goes up. This is the best outcome for you. If Mergatroid goes to $50 per share, your investment will be worth $5,000, and your outstanding margin loan will be $2,000. If you sell, the total proceeds will pay off the loan and leave you with $3,000.
Crossing one's fingers as a sign of luck or making a wish traces back to pre-Christian times, when the cross was a symbol of unity and benign spirits dwelt at the intersection point. A wish made on a cross was a way of anchoring the wish at the intersection of the cross until the wish was fulfilled.ccasionally it is interpreted as an attempt to implore God for protection. The gesture is referred to by the common expressions cross your fingers, keep your fingers crossed, or just fingers crossed. Some people, mostly children, also use the gesture to excuse their telling of a white lie.
Mark is roughly correct. The brackets usually indicate an indirect reference. The true clue is basically What keeping your fingers crossed means, This clue's answer is shorthand for 'over here!', It's a physical indication of 'Just like that', or 'Just kidding!' signal. Brackets stand out better than parentheses, which also have other meanings. Many books and all but one crossword solving app don't support styles like italics. There is a second usage and that is to indicate two or more related clues. See, for example, my New York Times Crossword of June 9th, which had five clues [1948], [1977], etc. In this case, there is a note at the top giving some additional information, so the brackets serve both senses. The clues are, in essence Member of the group from 1948, etc.