retailers cant short sell in bursa.

retailers cant short sell in bursa.

i havent update myself about this in a while now.
i think retailers like us have to open a different account to short sell. we can only short sell stocks from a list though.
and before we can short sell, the lending agency have to have available shares loaned by others for us to sell.

not sure how many days. i think ill go call my broker to explore this option

you have any stocks to short? 

people are panic for oil price now.....panic panic, they are... 
in fact, i'm looking at between 1900 and 1950... 

i made my 2 maiden us purchases just now.

as i do not hv realtime subscription, i used yahoo fin for real time data, place orders on cimb itrade. yahoofin data is pretty realtime as i can see it when done at the correct time on itrade which is realtime for orders processing. overall, worked fine. actually using a tiny atom netbook to do this while waiting for new pc to arrive.

first time, quite pleased with it.

bought spy n xle (becos crude jumped 4%). in tens of shares, not thousands.

now, will see if crude rebound holds and how usd-rm will work out in the coming months...