RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:ShortingYou could be right Aarman4. I never thought of it from that point of view. Do we ever actually own shares outright or not? Splitting hairs maybe. But when I called they seemed pretty specific that they look at the account and if it has say 50k$ in margin owing they will lend out 50k$ worth of shares. Any shares in the account. You may have used margin to buy company X but they just see it as money owing. That was about 10 years ago so could be changed by now. Anyway at that point I stopped using margin and switched to my LOC if wanted to borrow money to buy shares. Short sellers and banks are bed fellows that we can be sure of.