ok going to move on from this topic after this but:
1) borrowing =!= shorting. Sometimes borrows are for liquidity, or yield farming, or collateral, etc.
2) obviously Alameda has automated systems to monitor and manage risk, it doesn't just passively say 'oops liquidated!'
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collateralization ratios getting tight, must be confident in your systems. sending over the right collateral will likely move you out of a position and move the market.
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why would it move the market? what if it was sitting around somewhere in case it was needed?
cause you’re a quant, you are not going to borrow something and pay interest unless can generate a better return. right just sitting in binance and bittrex that you pulled liquidity from to repay and market moved.
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OTOH -- it's *extremely* valuable to have spare capital:
1) if you don't you'll get blown out to moves
2) free to use for new things that come up
generally you almost always want a bunch
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