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Modeling short-selling accounts
I am having trouble modeling short selling mechanics in my backtesting system.
When I sell stock short, I make the following changed to account variables:
Credit Balance += 200% of the stock value ...
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short selling with collateral accounting
I don't know how the accounting works for short selling with collateral:
For example if a stock is \$10 a share and turn out to be $15 a share a week later.
At time 0, you borrow and sell 10 shares ...
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