Hey brotha how do we know if Etrade provides shares to short?

@stayhumble I'm not sure about E-Trade ... ask in the chat room, I'm sure someone there uses E-Trade. In TOS, there's a NTB or ETB or HTB that shows up in the Active Trader for (None, Easy, Or Hard to Borrow), but you have to place a trade to see if there's any available, if I remember correctly. In SureTrade's web platform, you type in the Symbol, and the screen shows 'Shortable' or 'Non-shortable', every time it's shown shortable, I've been able to short. IB has columns you can add to their

IB has colums you can add to their TWS platform that shows the number of shares available to short, as well as % of float short, days to cover, etc ... useful information.