Understood, the Market Value was the method we wer

Understood, the Market Value was the method we were using. But that statement about the Equity rule is somewhat ambiguous there, implying the $3 is when you use ONLY the Equity approach.

But if you read thru the Market Value route, allowing you to use the $2 rule, as I showed, in part (b) it does not specifically state that you cannot ALSO then use the Equity Standard as a second method, along with another of the 2 methods, to utilize the $2 @ 5 days...