Tomek Przybycien

Trader.

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

What I use for trading (2026 update)

Brokers
@ZimtraTrading -> https://t.co/nw6Agfu6l0 (best locates again) - good if starting with smaller account
@cobra_trading
@sagetraderusa -> https://t.co/4a48HPufwZ

Scanners in real time
@TradeIdeas
@GetScanz

Data
@fiscal_ai
@flash_research
@AskEdgar_App

News
@Benzinga

More info:
@ZimtraTrading
This is not a typical broker; it’s a prop trading firm. I’ve been with them since 2012. Great company, team, and support. Hard to beat their offer. They’ve been around longer than many U.S. brokers, but only recently started operating under their own brand. Before that, they spent years powering local firms with tools and capital.

@Cobra_Trading and @sagetraderusa
Both have great offers. I use them alternately, depending on my needs.

@flash_research
A great tool for behavior analysis, especially useful for P&D. The team did an excellent job — highly recommended.

@TradeIdeas I started using it around 2009. A great tool for real-time market scanning.

@fiscal_ai Started using it recently. An amazing tool 🙂

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

Chillooouuut :) Summer mode is on!
Have a great weekend traders!

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@mantoniuq Po long side od dłuższego czasu mam wiecej zysków. W ostatnich 2 latach sie to mocno zmieniło. Co nie znaczy ze nie ma świetnych okresów pod dobre fade :)

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

All this whining about shorts lol 😉 I'm at the desk from 4 AM in pre-market. I'm genuinely able to grab shorts (early in the move) at $0.0005-0.005 per share. But yeah, fair point if I were rolling out of bed at 7 or 9 AM, most of those locates would be 10x or just gone.
Not sure how far back people's memory goes here, but low floats and micro low floats always had limited SS availability or came at a high price. There are specific tickers that, going back years as far as I can remember, have always had expensive borrows.
Honestly, I don't know if some of you would've survived mentally starting out in 2007, or even 2015, when "hard to borrow" and "locates" were barely even a thing. 🙂 Most names were ETB. We adapted to all those changes. It is what it is, that's the market. Chins up, ladies and gents 🙂

I get the sense that some people have gotten too comfortable with one specific broker. Worth shopping the market around - a broker that seemed cheap 2-3 years ago might just be expensive today, with damn few locates available / or pricey shorts. The way I see it, if you're grabbing up to 50k shares short and you're fast about it, it's really not that big of a deal. But ordering hundreds of k in SS on a low float / micro float - yeah, then probably is.

From my perspective… over the last 20 years I really got used to 90%+ of my trades being shorts. Back in 2024, if I hadn't changed that up (and that's a serious piece of work, both mentally and strategy-wise), I'd probably be damn frustrated today too. The money is out there plenty of guys I've been trading with for 10+ years are sitting at their ATHs. But you can't always anchor yourself to your best stretch, sometimes you've gotta take 3 steps back to really break out hard afterward.

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@kow_jakub Stare bydle jesteś ;) mysle ze juz dojrzałeś, nasdaq na Ciebie czeka ;))

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@janumeister @cxxxrbon DAS
Replay mode and recording screen

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@MaciekPiot

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@cxxxrbon I love the buying at .38x
If you have replay mode, check t&s

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@jrtradesuwu Most of the people complaining aren't using more than 50k shares anyway, which is exactly what I pointed out in the post

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@TheoryTrading

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@neil__to @GUS_player_C Before 2020/COVID, you'd get as many plays on small caps in a month as you do now in a single day :)
There is always something to complain about haha

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@Ironflow247 Haha, I had a bigger issue back then. Even opening an account as a foreigner was a big problem ;)))

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@amberXBT @SexyShortSeller True for some stocks. But it's also heavily broker dependent, the more clearing firms they're plugged into, the deeper the locate inventory and the better the pricing. Same stock can cost wildly different across brokers, even at 4am

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@howdoibuildthis Just my few cents ;) Complaining has never added anything good to my life 😉

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@cobra_trading thx! :)

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@vitalesiak Cheers brother, means a lot 🫡

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@SexyShortSeller Have you considered that maybe the locates aren't the issue here?

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

One more thing. I just think most new/wannabe traders, and even those who've already started to build some kind of edge, have this mindset… if they locate something, they NEED to use it. Nope, there's no need. It's just the small cost of having something cheap. Nothing wrong with not using it. I much prefer not to order shorts on stocks on the Reg SHO list :)))

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

Who is talking about shorting at 4 am, 5 am, 6 am and so on? Not me :)
To be clear: If I figure that a stock might be an interesting short setup later on, and right now 20k (or whatever number you want) shares cost me $60 to lock up - I'd rather just pull the trigger right away than wait 2 minutes or 30 minutes and end up paying $500 or $2000 for the same 20k, or find them gone altogether.
That's just the small cost of an opportunity I might not even take. Part of the business.

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

@MaciekPiot

[Tomek Przybycien @DayTraderPL]

Have a great weekend traders :)
Crete is amazing :)
Somehow I don't even miss the market lol I am getting old or wtf