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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (42025)	11/1/2000 8:09:56 AM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

Just to give a real world example, say you have $10,000 cash in an account. This $10,000 could support a short sale of $20,000 worth of a stock. You would get interest on $30,000. At 5% interest, the total annual return would be 15% if the stock went nowhere. Of course, that 15% can disappear pretty quickly with a levered short portfolio like that. Indeed, it is the rare short seller that levers a portfolio short in the first place.