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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Allan F who wrote (6533)4/8/1998 11:02:00 AM
From: santhosh mohan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18691
 
--More on Short-selling 101 ---

<<Now one can short using longs that otherwise be just sitting
there do nothing.......But if one is going to own say $10K in stocks long, using it as equity to short $5K in other stocks will not
require any additional funds. >>

Your broker lets you use long equity positions as margin for short-sales? I'm quite sure it has to be funds available or by arrangement, certain treasury securities. Can you clarify? Thanks.


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