Marginable Stock

Marginable Stock - Marginable Stock is when the brokerage agreements give the brokerage houses the ability to lend stocks to other account holders who want to sell short. Stock held in cash accounts generally are unsalable to short sellers. If you want sellers not to be able to borrow your stock, hold it in a cash account. This means your ability to borrow against the stock will be null and void. This is generally not possible because brokerages hold, for the benefit of short position customers. There are times when brokers close short to balance the books for all shares in a stock.