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A short position in
0.95 * ( 5,000 * 30 / 50 * 1504 )
= 1.8949 ( or approx. 2 )
contracts is required. It will be profitable if the stock outperforms the market in the sense that its return is greater than that predicted by the capital asset pricing model.
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