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I was wondering if anyone had implemented hard to borrow fees into their backtesting?
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Josh
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Jared Broad
Not yet Josh, we have an issue open for margin on leveraged assets; and I just created this one for short fees.
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Carlos Rendon
Depending on which broker you use, what I did in the mean time was to simply looking at several htb stocks and came up with a rough number I pay to reserve the shares (say ~$.03/share) and then use this to create an order fee:
class ShortLocateFee(FeeModel):
def __init__(self, algorithm):
self.algorithm = algorithm
def GetOrderFee(self, parameters):
# Apply short locate fee only to short sales
if parameters.Order.Direction == 1 and parameters.Order.Quantity < 0:
fee = parameters.Order.AbsoluteQuantity * 0.03 # magic number here
else:
fee = 0
return OrderFee(CashAmount(fee, "USD"))
Josh M
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