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    • Joan Arau
      Joan Arau last edited by

      As far as I understand there are two options on how to handle cash when shorting stocks: .set_shortcash() False and True, where one adds the cash received from shorting and the other subtracts it. Isn't the real word behaviour of retail brokers such as IBKR to lock in the cash to the position? So when I open a short position on IBKR cash is neither added nor subtracted but maintenance margin is raised ? Would it be possible to add a third option to introduce this behaviour?

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        ab_trader last edited by

        shortcash=False should give you appropriate results.

        There is no development going on.

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