Has anyone else experienced a sudden unavailabe short problem with IB? Stocks I've been trading all day ie: GOOG, LEH, MER are no longer shortable.
Me too. The only stock I could find in a minute of searching that was shortable was QQQQ. Many. many stocks not shortable.
I just went through 20 different stocks that are available according to the IB home page, and I couldn't short any of them.
If by this you mean that if you, say, go into TWS and put in a short stop limit order on a stock, that the software doesn't reject as outside your margin, etc., and that when the stock reaches your limit price on an uptick, nothing happens -- there's no execution, message, change of status color, just nothing. And this happens multiple times as the stock makes up and down passes through your limit price without execution -- well then, yes, this has happened to me today on multiple execution attempts, the last one would have put me up about $3000 at the moment had it executed.
I just tried shorting 40 broker related stocks and not ONE was available! Keep getting blue status bar! Something smells!
What I mean is that I went through my TWS and put in sell orders a few cents above on 20 different stocks and I got a solid blue in the status line for every trade. All of these stocks are on their list of shortable stocks. This fuckn sucks!
Also solid blue status here. And as I wistfully look at money that might've been mine it's now up to $4000.
You've got to be kidding, here is IB's updated short list. A total of 10 stocks available. http://www.interactivebrokers.com/e...cntry=usa&tag=United States&ib_entity=llc&ln=