hard to borrow

[mktmkr]

anybody have experience with hard to borrow equities
how dificult to short, fees, buy-ins, best broker for hard to borrow?

 

[nitro]

Quote from mktmkr:

anybody have experience with hard to borrow equities
how dificult to short, fees, buy-ins, best broker for hard to borrow?

Merrill Lynch

 

[lescor]

I use Merrill and IB for short inventory on a big list of thin, hard to borrow stocks. IB blows Merrill away. Not what you'd expect from a broker with their retail base, but IB has made huge improvements in this area from a few years ago.

I don't call to do locates at Merrill very often (because I can usually get what I want at IB), but when I do, they can get me stock maybe 50% of the time.