Shares available to short

[nemzter]

Starting a new thread on this as I'm interested to see what the daily/weekly costs are to shorts trying to borrow shares.

I have a TD Ameritrade account and haven't checked to see if I can loan my shares (I don't think this is possible from reading some threads here and there). 

I'm interested to know what some of you have been doing with places like Fidelity allowing this and at what percentage rates.

Thanks!

[chicagpete]

I received a call last Thursday morning from Schwab. They are offering 3% on my 40k shares. These are in retirement accounts. Shares in my margin account can be loaned out by Schwab without my permission/knowledge if I have debit balance - from what I understood from my discussion with Schwab rep. I am not lending out any of my shares....... just holding and practicing patience.

[tbone]

Fidelity paying 12 1/2% currently.

[ashiwi]

Fidelity is charging 18.75% to borrow the shares.

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Royal Bank of Canada (in Canada!) doesn't pay to lend out shares and supposedly only does it on margined accounts (without paying obviously). I presume this is standard in the land of oligopoly banking.

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[rickf]

Thought this might be of interest re: Fidelity in Canada!

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[mannmade]

At number 9 with a bullet... Mannkind

online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3062-nasdaqshort-highlites.html

Short Interest Tables - WSJ.com

Biggest Short Positions
GO TO: Largest Positive Changes | Largest Negative Changes | Largest % Increases | Largest % Decreases | Shorts As A Percentage of Float | Days To Cover
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
"Short" shares are borrowed and then sold in the hope that the share price will fall before the borrowed shares have to be purchased and replaced. A high level of short interest could indicate that a share price is ready to fall, but can also be a hedge, or counterbet, for an investor who has gone "long," or bought a lot shares of a company thinking that the share price will rise.

Company Symbol 11/14/14 10/31/14 Chg % Chg % Float Days to
cover Avg daily
volume
1 Sirius XM Holdings Inc. SIRI 247,283,696 240,500,720 6,782,976 2.8 10.6 10 25,854,800
2 Intel Corporation INTC 181,455,092 204,406,909 -22,951,817 -11.2 3.8 7 26,886,105
3 Frontier Communications Corporation FTR 151,404,507 152,250,421 -845,914 -0.6 15.2 16 9,592,215
4 Comcast Corporation - Class A Common Stock CMCSA 115,488,311 125,856,683 -10,368,372 -8.2 5.4 5 22,805,249
5 BlackBerry Limited BBRY 99,051,192 102,269,887 -3,218,695 -3.2 20.3 6 16,813,916
6 Micron Technology, Inc. MU 94,526,173 103,540,860 -9,014,687 -8.7 8.9 6 16,990,746
7 Groupon, Inc. - Class A Common Stock GRPN 93,562,046 86,292,428 7,269,618 8.4 20.7 4 23,006,810
8 Microsoft Corporation MSFT 87,933,746 84,493,525 3,440,221 4.1 1.2 3 26,598,079
9 MannKind Corporation MNKD 82,431,190 82,027,036 404,154 0.5 33.2 17 4,782,518
10 Apple Inc. AAPL 74,477,960 99,635,030 -25,157,070 -25.3 1.3 2 40,589,714
11 Applied Materials, Inc. AMAT 73,471,495 73,423,767 47,728 0.1 6.0 7 11,151,580
12 Cisco Systems, Inc. CSCO 72,736,500 72,730,657 5,843 ... 1.4 2 31,538,762
13 Staples, Inc. SPLS 71,655,248 74,890,022 -3,234,774 -4.3 11.2 9 7,715,648
14 Windstream Holdings, Inc. WIN 70,281,011 67,739,023 2,541,988 3.8 11.8 9 8,001,456
15 Zynga Inc. - Class A Common Stock ZNGA 63,449,360 65,645,270 -2,195,910 -3.4 8.6 2 30,496,264
16 PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 QQQ 57,439,821 78,663,766 -21,223,945 -27.0 ... 2 23,300,560
17 RF Micro Devices, Inc. RFMD 56,904,170 61,777,612 -4,873,442 -7.9 20.0 5 11,041,917
18 Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. - Class A Common Stock FOXA 55,160,347 53,569,141 1,591,206 3.0 4.0 4 13,237,092
19 Gilead Sciences, Inc. GILD 53,916,007 51,964,702 1,951,305 3.8 3.6 3 15,779,352
20 Exelixis, Inc. EXEL 50,828,340 50,748,860 79,480 0.2 26.9 20 2,544,529
21 Yahoo! Inc. YHOO 50,780,414 55,215,957 -4,435,543 -8.0 5.6 2 27,416,953
22 Capstone Turbine Corporation CPST 48,434,786 48,465,131 -30,345 -0.1 14.8 18 2,724,518
23 JetBlue Airways Corporation JBLU 48,297,103 50,218,603 -1,921,500 -3.8 19.9 6 8,463,154
24 ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ARIA 47,460,759 47,657,175 -196,416 -0.4 26.2 8 5,882,915
25 NVIDIA Corporation NVDA 41,898,822 37,434,280 4,464,542 11.9 8.2 6 7,365,314
26 Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. OREX 39,760,174 40,671,214 -911,040 -2.2 37.8 7 5,763,747
27 Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ARNA 39,144,911 40,735,338 -1,590,427 -3.9 17.9 7 5,502,238
28 PDL BioPharma, Inc. PDLI 36,790,945 36,624,254 166,691 0.5 25.4 13 2,925,719
29 Credit Suisse AG - VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short Term ETN TVIX 36,505,736 20,318,996 16,186,740 79.7 ... 2 21,890,449
30 VIVUS, Inc. VVUS 36,393,996 36,093,712 300,284 0.8 35.5 16 2,218,069
31 Whole Foods Market, Inc. WFM 36,014,026 32,749,594 3,264,432 10.0 10.1 3 10,625,486
32 Facebook, Inc. - Class A Common Stock FB 35,560,953 43,824,108 -8,263,155 -18.9 1.7 1 27,089,699
33 Plug Power, Inc. PLUG 35,225,606 35,867,794 -642,188 -1.8 21.9 3 13,426,791
34 Novavax, Inc. NVAX 34,920,986 35,392,409 -471,423 -1.3 15.2 12 2,886,614
35 JD.com, Inc. - American Depositary Shares JD 34,888,507 32,183,028 2,705,479 8.4 3.3 7 5,354,331
36 Hercules Offshore, Inc. HERO 34,597,597 33,198,053 1,399,544 4.2 22.3 11 3,127,399
37 Office Depot, Inc. ODP 34,383,672 40,206,518 -5,822,846 -14.5 6.5 2 18,683,193
38 Liberty Global plc - Class C Ordinary Shares LBTYK 33,791,361 39,422,979 -5,631,618 -14.3 6.3 6 5,976,458
39 FuelCell Energy, Inc. FCEL 33,400,955 33,314,668 86,287 0.3 14.4 6 5,606,409
40 Myriad Genetics, Inc. MYGN 32,557,436 32,687,058 -129,622 -0.4 44.8 33 981,215
41 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. CDNS 30,546,666 30,832,020 -285,354 -0.9 10.5 14 2,144,617
42 Pilgrim's Pride Corporation PPC 29,667,556 19,299,492 10,368,064 53.7 57.6 12 2,418,433
43 Amarin Corporation plc - American Depositary Shares, each representing one Ordinary Share AMRN 29,420,174 30,162,241 -742,067 -2.5 17.9 16 1,802,962
44 Fastenal Company FAST 28,861,647 28,314,292 547,355 1.9 10.6 18 1,649,208
45 Geron Corporation GERN 27,713,478 27,679,065 34,413 0.1 17.8 3 8,677,901
46 Texas Instruments Incorporated TXN 27,605,911 29,791,300 -2,185,389 -7.3 2.6 5 5,066,057
47 People's United Financial, Inc. PBCT 27,381,683 26,412,920 968,763 3.7 8.9 12 2,352,187
48 Exact Sciences Corporation EXAS 26,194,175 26,407,039 -212,864 -0.8 32.1 22 1,193,191
49 Mylan Inc. MYL 25,811,016 23,702,447 2,108,569 8.9 6.9 8 3,232,258
50 Zogenix, Inc. ZGNX 25,456,292 25,892,867 -436,575 -1.7 20.9 10 2,609,611
Sources: FactSet Research Systems; WSJ Market Data Group