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This question tells us that we sell a naked shot of at the money call options on 1 ,000 shares of aapl.
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Aapl is trading at $94 per share.
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You receive $1 .50 for a total of $1 ,500.
00:20
How much margin will you have to post in your account? okay.
00:26
So under regulation t, the financial reserve bond requires all shots, accounts to have 150 % of the value of the short sale and the time of the sale initiation.
00:41
The 150 % consists of the full value of the short sale proceeds, which is 100 % of the amount, plus an additional margin requirement of 50 % of the short sale.
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So knowing this, let us compute our margin required.
01:05
Margin required would be value of the short sale which in our case would be 1 ,000 plus 1 ,000 value of the short sale plus 50 % of the sale...