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red sox 777
06/15/22 1:59:51 PM
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And no, you cannot bootstrap a margin loan by committing only the proceeds of a short sale to secure that short trade. That would allow you to initiate an arbitrarily large short position with zero actual capital. Your broker will always ask for more collateral than the proceeds of the short sale itself before initiating the short position.

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