Lots of stocks (not on the list) I can't get anymore short in IB? What gives? They have their own expanded list or something?
funny, IB used to have a lot of microcap stock posted as available to short. Now that a hard close requirement is in play they seem to have dried up on those shares. Could this be a sign that some fake locates were being put out there?
Earlier in the year there was usually around 11k shortable stocks. Now there's about 9k. However, even some of those 9k could results in a T+3 buy-in, as I've had happen to me recently.
Looks like we only have about 8300 shortable US stocks this morning. That number appears to be decreasing everyday.
7358 @ 9:15.looks like it's shrinking every second...yesterday it was around 9000, day before-10K i remember that full list is about 11-12K of securities. now only 7K is shortable? 5K of financial stocks? common...