I have a margin account and recently I got assigned on a cash covered put. For the first week the assigned shares were held with margin and I could see interest being charged but the following week a "journal" transaction appeared in my activity history debiting my cash position and crediting my margin debt after which the assigned shares were no longer held with margin and fully paid.
Why did this happen all of a sudden and is there no way to both use margin to hold shares and trade options that require a cash to cover them?