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OK, so I think you guys are right (thanks again) that the stock is probably HTB, and if brokerages are charging a fee/interest to short the stock, then that would explain the situation pretty well. I was aware of the concept of a HTB list, but not that I might be charged a substantial fee to...

atticus, I'm sorry if my posts have annoyed or offended you. I am truly grateful for the replies I have received here - even yours was helpful to me in spite of its tone. In my defense, I think if you read my posts it should be pretty clear that I wasn't ever claiming that I was bringing...

Thanks to all of you for the helpful, smart, quick replies. I've obviously found exactly the right place to ask this question. (By contrast, and for your amusement only, I submit to you a link to the other place I posed the question and the first reply I received there). Joking aside, on...

I'll write a longer, gratitude-spilling reply soon, but first a quick note: sorry I forgot to mention in my original post that the underlying stock does not pay a dividend.

Let me start by saying that I *DONT* think Ive found a magical risk-free money-making strategy. Ive found something that looks like an arbitrage opportunity to my non-expert eye, and Im posting here for more experienced folk to tell me why it wont work. Theres a stock Ive been...