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Re: lemon post# 115772

Thursday, 11/19/2015 5:01:06 PM

Thursday, November 19, 2015 5:01:06 PM

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example at the broker that I use, you have to have $2.50 margin per share to short a stock under $2.50. So if you short 1000 shares of a stock at $2, you have to have $2,500 in your account ($2.50 x 1000). If you want to short 1million shares of a stock at .0001, you have to have $2.5mllion in your account, and 1million shares at .0001 is only $100. So it wouldn't make sense to do. The bright side is that if you do short somethign down there, you won't get a margin call unless it exceed $2.50, which isn't very likely for a .0001 stock. But again, you'd never short $100 worth of a penny stock if you had $2.5 mil in your account.


Also here

https://claytrader.com/videos/shorting-penny-stocks-is-stupid/