BlueCollarDayTrading Posted November 30, 2020 Report Share Posted November 30, 2020 Is there anyway to know if a stock is on Short Sale Restriction in MT. I have to put each stock in IB TWS to see if it is SSR. So every time I see a stock I want to short I have to put into IB TWS to check. This can be slow process when a stock is moving quickly. In a MT Watchlist/portfolio I don't see where it says this anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundwave401 Posted December 2, 2020 Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 On your portfolio you can add a column for shortable. Right click on the column headers, click column chooser, scroll down and look for shortable. Drag it over and drop it where you want the column to be. It works well for TD Ameritrade's data feed. But it doesn't show ETB/HTB. For that I end up making a watchlist in Think or Swim so I can see the ETB/HTB. Not sure if IB's data feed provides shortable info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCollarDayTrading Posted December 2, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2020 Shortable and Short Sale Restriction are different things. I already use the Shortable column. Thanks for the information though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundwave401 Posted December 3, 2020 Report Share Posted December 3, 2020 17 hours ago, BlueCollarDayTrading said: Shortable and Short Sale Restriction are different things. I already use the Shortable column. Thanks for the information though. Right. I know they are different things but my point was if the datafeed coming from TD doesn't even provide ETB/HTB into MT then I highly doubt SSR information is provided by any datafeeds. MT is limited by what the data feeds provide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3acor Posted December 28, 2020 Report Share Posted December 28, 2020 Yea that would be a good feature to add on the Watchlist Column. Another option I found is to go to Studies/Add Horizontal lines and then select Short Selling Restriction at the bottom. It will give you the value at which the stock will be on SSR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3acor Posted December 28, 2020 Report Share Posted December 28, 2020 (edited) . Edited December 28, 2020 by 3acor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCollarDayTrading Posted January 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 On 12/3/2020 at 6:41 AM, Soundwave401 said: Right. I know they are different things but my point was if the datafeed coming from TD doesn't even provide ETB/HTB into MT then I highly doubt SSR information is provided by any datafeeds. MT is limited by what the data feeds provide. I am not using TD data feed. I am using Interactive Brokers TWS which shows SSR stock in the TWS platform. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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