DCA and prevention of accidental short selling

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I am pretty new to the stock market and have now applied for an account of IB since many people recommend it. (Cash Account)

I am a very conservative investor, so I will just use DCA for etfs.

I have done my research on how to use DCA and it’s quite simple. But I can’t find any instruction on how to sell the fractional shares. Do I just choose the amount I want to sell? Since I won’t buy whole shares?

And if lets say I bought a share. After a few days I decided to sell it, but I made a mistake by choosing the number of shares to sell as “2”.

In this case, will IB prohibit the trade since I only have one share in my portfolio? Or I will accidently short sell?

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