# Confused about the profit generated from a short sale of shares

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confused-about-the-profit-generated-from-a-short-sale-of-shares/677915>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 5, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confused-about-the-profit-generated-from-a-short-sale-of-shares/677915 "2014-01-05T00:29:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confused-about-the-profit-generated-from-a-short-sale-of-shares/677915/21 "2014-01-07T22:26:34Z")

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After looking into this further it appears Interactive Brokers will actually split the fees generated from securities lending with their customers 50/50 if they have an account \>$50k. That’s pretty cool…

[http://ibkb.interactivebrokers.com/article/1838](http://ibkb.interactivebrokers.com/article/1838)

(FWIW, I have no business or connection with Interactive Brokers).

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