Tired of unavailable shorts at IB

Discussion in 'Interactive Brokers' started by newestmember, Nov 17, 2004.

  1. Steve_IB

    Steve_IB Interactive Brokers

    Those comparisons are a week apart, you should make comparisons at the same time.

    At the 12th, IB had the following:

    ALXN, BTRX, CRA, DUSA, ENZ, MNKD, NABI, RIGL - that's 8 out of 10.
     
    #61     Apr 13, 2005
  2. NKNY

    NKNY

    Wow, thanks for the info steve....

    I wish I could have made the comparisons on the same day but unfortunately I don't have access to the redsky shortlist and had to rely on email which took a bit of time.

    Nick
     
    #62     Apr 13, 2005
  3. Toonces

    Toonces

    RedSky has Merrill in addition to Southwest?
     
    #63     Apr 13, 2005
  4. NKNY

    NKNY

    Yes...

    I the min for a merrill account is 25,000 while the sws is 10,000

    I really like redsky but the one thing I need is batch trade capability.

    I need to enter multiple stocks of 12 to 20 to execute at a later time at once. Otherwise when the time comes for me to execute them I would be going nuts...lol

    They did say they will be adding it in the future.

    Nk
     
    #64     Apr 13, 2005
  5. Toonces

    Toonces

    The last time I checked, account minimum was $50K. Or are you talking about prop trading? The $50K was for retail accounts.
     
    #65     Apr 13, 2005
  6. NKNY

    NKNY

    Hi Toonces...

    I went back and re read my email... Its actually $30,000 for ML

    I guess I was thinking of the PDT number when I wrote the post...

    10,000 for sws and 30,000 through ML

    Anybody have any experience with ML ?


    Nick
     
    #66     Apr 13, 2005
  7. NKNY

    NKNY

    How is tradestation doing these days with shorting availability.....


    Nick
     
    #67     Jun 3, 2005
  8. Bob111

    Bob111

    for whatever reason today's IB short list is ....pretty short...for whatever reason it's about 7K+ securities in it vs 10K+ their "typical" or average inventory. lots of short orders are rejected..i guess they know better where is the market about to go..maybe i should start working on "system" based on IB short inventory?
     
    #68     Nov 23, 2010
  9. GM is available, what else you need?
     
    #69     Nov 23, 2010
  10. GM lod, who yor daddy?

    think Im running about 126% accuracy
     
    #70     Nov 23, 2010