Recent content by JAG75

Ouch, no takers. How about this one. When shorting a stock, what is the typical rebate to a fund for the short exposure in a hard to borrow issue same question for a normal borrow stock (so is it negative rebate for hard and positive rebate for reg, or is there no rebate for reg?). Also...

Just curious on haircut for hedge funds. As a market maker in options, firms are required to post margin to roughly cover moves in your portfolio >< 15% in the market and also $25 per contract. This is for a medium sized firm making markets under a large BD platform. What are the costs for a...