I’m glad you pointed out the no prop firm. It is very, very, very, very, very dangerous. Would not recommend it unless you have YEARS of consistent profitability and understand what it means to trade 1:20 leverage, and even then…

And nooo way will I join a prop firm!!! I’ll leave that to the crackheads and meth addicts!

If you want guaranteed share availability, you need to open a prop trading account. Most prop firms can get you a borrow on ANY stock for either free or (max) $0.015/share intraday in prop account. Most prop firms take care of their own. But if you want to hold overnight, they probably won’t like it… but they might let you. Would have to ask them. Borrowing through conventional brokers is hit-or-miss… I think the pros are getting locates manually, directly from clearing or prop firms.

Also interesting is that naked short selling doesn’t really slap you too hard until the third day. I wouldn’t know from first-hand experience, but I would guess that some of the “boys” use the 3-day naked short selling grace period to their advantage. This is just speculation. Hope that helps.

Thanks