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IG has little stock to borrow and short over months rather than days.:sly: Can anyone help with a co with more US stock to borrow and short?? HELP

I'm using lightspeed trading platform for equities, thanks for your help

Anyway round that Trade Girl?

I'm having a few problem with stops. Not sure if I'm entering correct orders, say if I'm short ebay at $12.10 and I immediately enter a stop at 12.25 risking 0.15 what would be the order for this. Simply market stop/price/ day? My stops seem to go off early when stop price not touched any idea...

I am thinking of opening an account with lightspeed trading, anyone use them? Also is my money protected by the SIPC should the brokerages owner Penson (PNSN) get into difficulty?

Sorry loser thought I'd ask, I couldn't be bothered to deal with IB support at this stage as just testing the waters. thought someone would be kind enough to post back instead of giving sh!tty comments. As the old saying goes if u have nothing nice to say don't say it.

Mmm, how much does it cost to trade CL or QM for 1 contract? i.e. commission costs is it around $1.50? For QM whats the minimum amount of money I will need in my IB account?

Hi Guys new to commodity traiding, but I have day traded before what is the best low cost way to trade oil my paper trading has been going good: I have a few questions: How much capital do I need to trade CLZ front month, I have an IB account? CLZ is $1000 a point which isn't cheap to start...

I enjoyed the book and made me realise there is more to trading than entries and technical analysis, money management and exits are also very important and often the most overlooked part of trading.

HOW MANY RICH DAYTRADERS DO YOU KNOW? How many rich daytraders do you know. To all those thinking of taking up trading the Nasdaq over minutes and seconds via level 2 be careful its not for the faint hearted and its no get rich quick plan personally i think its BS. I have traded the market via...

IB How have you found IB? Do they supply the direct access software or do you need to get real tick 3 for instance?

stuff Have you checked out interactive brokers for a 1000 share order the price for the transaction is 5$ or 0.05$C per share, bargain. At the moment I'm paying around 3 times that, has anyone else used this borker it seems popular with our US friends? Also I think Friday's late NAS surge was...

Hi people, I'm having a high percentage of winning trades lately but the fees are hurting my bottom lines a little do you know any reliable direct access firms with trades under $12. Also if you didn't read my thread how are the axes for SANM and AMAT? Regards

My trading is going quite well latelty and I'm please with my high percentage of winning trades, as soon as it looks to go against me I don't hang around. Although I prefer to trade high volume NYSE stock because they are gennerally slower moving and I like the stop orders besause I like to...

So can you refuse the 23 jnpr shares or do you have to take them even though you wanted to buy 1000 originally? Thanks again Flea!