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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1997 Short Picks
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To: Charles Corbit who wrote (4260)7/24/1997 9:17:00 PM
From: Jon Tara   of 9285
 
Charles, in order to be shortable:

1. The stock must be marginable. There are certain stautatory requirements (for example, a stock may not be marginable for a certain number of days after an IPO), and the broker will have both financial (e.g. $5 stock or $4 stock) and arbitrary (e.g. broker things the stock is risky) requirements. Bottom line is your broker gets the final say in every individual stock.

2. Your broker must be able to borrow the stock. This means one fo their customers has to have the stock in a margin account, or else they must be able (and willing) to borrow it from another broker.

1. may not be strictly required, but as a practical matter 2. dictates it.
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