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maintenance_margin_schedule

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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maintenance_margin_schedule — 9 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
share_pricemaintenance_per_share_usdpct_of_market_value
$22.5125
$44100
$55100
$10550
$15533.3
$20630
$30930
$501530
$1003030
Rows × columns
9 × 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 maintenance_margin_schedule, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
share_price text 9 distinct values ($10, $100, $15…)
maintenance_per_share_usd number 2.5 to 30 US dollars
pct_of_market_value number 30 to 125 percent

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(price)) AS share_price,
    round(if(price >= 5, greatest(5.0, 0.30 * price), greatest(2.5, toFloat64(price))), 2) AS maintenance_per_share_usd,
    round(100.0 * maintenance_per_share_usd / price, 1) AS pct_of_market_value
FROM (SELECT arrayJoin([2, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 50, 100]) AS price)
ORDER BY price

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