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can i use my long position stocks as margin for my short sold stocks?
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200% margin for a short sale is outrageous. you should only need to put up 150% margin, of which 50% is your money, and the 100% is the proceeds.  with $100 of your money, you should be able to buy $100 of goog and short $100 of pnqi.
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