# Shorting Stocks?

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/shorting-stocks/514>\
**Category:** Alpaca Trading\
**Created:** [December 6, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/shorting-stocks/514 "2019-12-06T21:21:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![wayneb428](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ee7513/32.png) [@wayneb428](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/wayneb428)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/shorting-stocks/514/1 "2019-12-06T21:21:36Z")

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New to Alpaca and using it in Trading View. Any way to short stocks? Gives me code 40310000. Thanks