A hedge fund manager took a short position worth $$5$ million and a long position worth $$5$ million. If the hedge fund manager generated $$300,000$ net profit from a trade, what return was achieved?

Note: this includes the stock lending fee, so disregard the fee for this question.

$4\mathrm{.}5\%$

$2\mathrm{.}252\%$

$6\%$

$3\%$