Dangar,If you want to short stocks on the asx, possibly the...

Dangar,

If you want to short stocks on the asx, possibly the easiest way is by trading them using CFD's. Most of major online brokers provide CFD trading and you can go long or short on most of the larger ASX stocks.

If you are short on a stock, and you hold it overnight, then you are paid interest. If you are long, and hold overnight, you pay the interest.

I use First Prudential Markets, and they provide excellent service, and brokerage is negotiable once you have established a trading pattern on turnover and value of trades.

CFD's are a leveraged product, so there is risk if you are relative new person to trading in them. There's lots of information on the internet, and broker sites, on the merits and disadvantages of trading CFD's. But for short trades, they are hard to beat.