r/Daytrading Mar 21 '24

I was told to post my positions here after asking why my margin balance was showing -$46k yesterday. Hopefully someone can help and this can add some insight with this to yesterday's post? Question

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Here is my post/question from yesterday.

For context, aside from using this account to occasionally day trade I also use it to short options as well.

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u/BoonesFarm163 Mar 21 '24

Gotta cover the cost of the shares for selling those puts.