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Non-Tech : Bill Wexler's Dog Pound -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (119)	3/6/1999 12:20:00 PM
From: Stephen How	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10293

To my knowledge, none of the online brokers will do it, so one will need to actually speak to a trader, god forbid. Actually, in my Waterhouse on-line account, I was able to hold a simultaneous, balanced short and long position on the same stock. However, this was probably due to yet another bug with Web-broker (aka Web-broken). Once, about 18 months ago, I actually got transferred to *someone else's account* on Web-broker. I put in a trade in that account, wrote down the confirmation number, then called the Waterhouse technical assistance to inform them of the event. I mainly use an AB Watley Nasdaq level-2 system now, and they don't seem to offer an inventory of stocks to short. Steve