Shorting ETF's

I'm new to this. I have been trying to find an online broker that will allow me to short ETF's (e.g. JNUG, JDST, SOXL, SOXS). I know I can buy JDST if I want to short gold, but for some of my paper trading, my strategy seems to do better shoring JNUG in that situation. Anybody know where I can do this?
 
Hmm, I just placed live order to short JDST, and it was accepted without a problem:

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What exact error message do you see?
 
Though you've mentioned paper trading, so possibly in paper mode IB isn't checking properly whether the stocks are available for shorting. I was able to short a lot of stocks in paper accounts at IB, but don't have one open right now to check these ETFs.
You may just want to contact IB support.
 
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