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borrow_fee_daily_cost

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-09-11, from how-long-can-you-hold-a-short-position.

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borrow_fee_daily_cost — 7 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
annual_fee_ratecost_1d_usdcost_30d_usd
0.5%0.144.17
3%0.8325
10%2.7883.33
25%6.94208.33
50%13.89416.67
100%27.78833.33
200%55.561666.67
Rows × columns
7 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
Strasmore terms · free, no signup
Formats
JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for borrow_fee_daily_cost, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
annual_fee_rate text 7 distinct values (0.5%, 10%, 100%…)
cost_1d_usd number 0.14 to 55.56 US dollars
cost_30d_usd number 4.17 to 1,666.67 US dollars

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number 
SELECT
    concat(toString(rate_pct), '%') AS annual_fee_rate,
    round(10000 * rate_pct / 100 / 360, 2) AS cost_1d_usd,
    round(10000 * rate_pct / 100 / 360 * 30, 2) AS cost_30d_usd
FROM (SELECT arrayJoin([0.5, 3, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200]) AS rate_pct)
ORDER BY rate_pct

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