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By the way I sold my AMZN shares with over $10 per share profit in less than 24 hours.

Haha. You want proof? Here is the proof. You cannot handle the truth. Just this week's trade on CAT and the week is not over.

By posting my trades, I have two intentions. 1- Not to forget my bad trades as they are there on line 2- If I am wrong, others might criticize my trades and I would find some other thoughts. Note: Everyone knows that I cannot manipulate stocks by posting my trades. Let's say in the extreme case...

To mislead other traders and try to push them off a cliff. Kidding. No specific reason. As I see my account is going up, I get excited and post my trades as a self satisfaction. Sometimes I get bored.

Short stock, short PUT.

It is extremely overbought and its earning is close so it will be volatile and good chance to cover if you short at these levels. One of the reasons that CAT is up recently was short covering because of bad shorting ( big size and small stop gap).

Other trades are keep short positions of LULU, KMX, HD and ADI and long positions on GLD, SBUX, and AAPL and NFLX

I initiated a big position on AMZN (962) and increased my short position on CAT (127). Let's see how it goes. Do not follow my trades if you do not know what you are doing and how to handle short position and possible loss. Time span is one week.

After reading all your posts, my advice would be to find a broker that suits your needs and are happy with or at least are less unhappy with. No matter you are right or wrong, your feeling is very important and trading is very hectic and you should not add the frustration with your broker to it.

Also when shorting, check the short interest rate. I remember once SHAK interest rate was 140% !!!. That mans if you had shorted at $40 and covered the next year at $40, you had lost $$56 per share !!!!

Now I see the problem. They are requesting 50% margin for it because of your account margin type. Let me tell you what I would do if I were you. You might not accept my advice but I m going to tell you anyway. I just checked the chart. It jumped from 11 to 39 and that has got your interest to...

This is an order that I created to short 100 shares of ZGNX with IB. I do not see anything wrong with margin requirements. Tell me what is wrong? Here it is:

I do not want to argue with you because experience has shown that we might get nowhere but your statement should have a closing statement. You should pick one of these statements as your conclusion: 1- Market is a like a war zone and everyone only cares about himself and brokers are here to...

I do not know what is happening in your account specially the part that you said you have 25k and IB says you only have 2500. Was your option a multi leg order or single option order? I just guess maybe that was an all or none order which may be used to transfer positions between accounts in...

I believe that rule is for accounts less than 25K. If you have a larger account, that rule does not apply and once you covered, the cash is tradable. There is no difference between going long or short.

I believe so if your account is below 25K.

My account says it is not available for short "NOW" but things are dynamic and and it can change any time. I used to sell naked in the money calls for shares that were not available and then when the option was assigned, I was atutomatically short and they would let me keep the position :)

Keeping physical assets is the same as trading but with longer time horizon. By the way that is not me. For me one month is an eternity.

If you have to cover it (wait they do it for you and I believe they might not cover it and that was just a possibility warning email. I have experienced things like that) go ahead and create the same position by options.

I have started buying GLD by selling naked PUT at 122 and lower.