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they are correct, not being able to short a stock happens all the time, many times while you trading you may be able to short the stock and minutes later the broker doesn't own any of the stock and is unable to allow short selling positions. if you want to be guaranteed to short certain stocks...

we will never really know what is going on. but what we do know is this type of news gives us the opportunity to trade as it creates volume and volitiltiy. could be good opportunity to write some july / august staggered calls w

you will find shorting stocks very interesting. one moment during the day while you are scaling in a position the stock will not be available for shorting. suggest you have some knowledge of options so you can still obtain the position desired. in my opinion the up tick rule is bogus one...

another reason that will justify a pullback is the fact so many stocks have run, split, run split in a very short period of time, puchased back their stock so a true valuation is hard for to establish for long term position trading. good example of this would be rmbs, brcm, mrvl, ati, tie...

have to agree with you, when all sectors rally as today it in my opinion is a bs move. we have started our scale in of written calls and buying of puts. with moves like today looks like august has already come. low volume, big moves we keep our longs mostly as day, hour trades. great...

We find in our office that IB smart on nasdaq stocks good..usually one fill on a position of a thousand shares. find nyse stock fills slow and usually done in part fills even with a thousand share position with stocks that have volume. options nasdaq stocks okay but nyse options slow sometimes...

money can't buy you happiness but it can buy you a good time.. happiness is a way of life. similiar to being tickled you may laugh but that doesn't mean you are happy. all have a good week end, hope your trades went well. w

gain capital is a good forex broker. they also are a white label for several small independant brokers. I know they have the ability to allow external software execution and I have found them to be very reliable and helpful. good luck, w

when we notice a roll over it is when we notice a change in the direction of the stock from ie long 60, less long 15, 5min is going short. so it is a sentiment change in the stocks behaviour short or long term no one knows so we take what it gives us. but atyt was a good example...

11a.m. uk market closing the big boys have placed or exited their positions for the day, the market markers take over and play with us. if you play both sides of the market there are lots of trades, especially last 30-60mins you can look at which stocks have run long or short and scale in a...

I have no idea what percent is shorted but can tell you here that in our office most trades trade long and short. most will exit their long position and then look to scaled in a short position. The traders here lot to short a stock that may of run long 6-8percent and look for a short of...

I agree with you get money being given in the options. It is getting bs upgrades and you can be a few funds and institutions are buying this short term. with the 5dollar plus rally with no pullback and if you look at the money available in out of the money puts, writting calls and starting a...

If you want to be able to short when you like then IB will allow you to have the stock(s) available for a small fee. Today many stocks on Nasdaq and Nyse we unavailable. IB would assume IB ran out of the stock and as the market was going short in many stocks they choose not to buy until the...

gain capital has a good demo for currency and the news they provide will assist you in trading stocks and options. w

agree tie is great trading... i agree writting the puts on the last few days has been good. I had calls and a short position.. started my long position a little early but the premium from writting the 30puts balances out the position.. puts trade average just over 31.. i thought the...

looking at starting a short term long in tie at 33... looking to exit friday...see 3450-35area before it goes shorter w

curious? why did you not exit this morning when tie gapped and ran up to 40ish, would of been 2-4k depending on where you exited on a thousand shares.. if it is okay to ask, where did you get stopped out? I am curious also what you exit stratedy was? w

great moves today in tie, now that it has split great opportunities long and short and the price is now right for trading volume trades w

although tie is a metal stock..it is resembling brcm crazy run..split..little run and then a pullback.. this stock could very easy hit 30dollars by friday... should be a good short from 38-35area.. w

WOW! your're one angry dude..... if you don't work for IB perhaps you should look into it as you sure sound like most of their support/ employees who answer the phone. We experience data losses, loss of connection, wrong data with reference to high and low's of the day, long delays...