How do I see whether a stock is shortable via sFTP?

Overview

• We provide a variety of methods to assist account holders engaged in short selling with monitoring inventory levels and borrow costs/rebates. The level of detail available, the time frame covered and the manner in which the information is accessed vary by method and a brief overview of each is provided below…

IBKR provides information on the TWS which offers clients the ability to monitor when a stock is shortable and, if it is, the quantity of shares that can be shorted and the cost to borrow those shares. The data displayed under the shortable column for shortable shares is in real-time and no subscription is required…

Unfortunately we do not provide Morning Star data (e.g. days to cover, shares short, short % of float) via the API.

A shortable tick indicator is provided via the API which indicates whether:…

As background, the short stock availability list represents the inventory of shares which IBKR has available to lend and which other brokers have indicated that they have available to lend. While it is updated on a near real-time basis throughout the day for changes to IBKR's inventory and periodically throughout the day to reflect updates to the availability lists of other brokers, many brokers provide updates only once per day…