Can not short sell stocks under $5?
Very common rule for most US Brokers. Better put in a filter for Price>5. I have this filter for price > 5 for both long and short. This helps me to compare my stock picks with those that made it to this list at http://quotes.ino.com/analysis/extremes/stocks I frankly see no particular reason not to short stocks as opposed to going long. They are the same, except that when one is shorting stocks, they are doing it on margin money, i.e, borrowing from their broker and not dipping into their account equity. If that is not an advantage, I do not know of anything better. When a stock is overvalued and you determine that it has reached a top, you short it and when it is undervalued and you determine that it has reached a bottom, you go long. No great mystery about it. I find that an financial instrument falls twice as fast as it goes up, i.e., it is possible to make money twice faster by shorting than by going long. I have made more money shorting stocks than by going long. Of course, one h
