It's really very simple. You'll notice a bar on your TWS
that indicates whether shares are available to short (bright green
means they are). If that is the case, then you simply sell
the number of shares you want to short. If you're flat, and
you want to go short 10 shares of XYZ, then you sell that many.
If you're long 10, then you sell 20, etc.
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It's really very simple. You'll
Question for Interactive Brokers Users-Help
Posted by algyros on 31st of Jul 2011 at 09:31 am
It's really very simple. You'll notice a bar on your TWS that indicates whether shares are available to short (bright green means they are). If that is the case, then you simply sell the number of shares you want to short. If you're flat, and you want to go short 10 shares of XYZ, then you sell that many. If you're long 10, then you sell 20, etc.