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from what i understand is that you have to borrow shares to short sell and it's a T3. so what i am wondering is if i cand buy back before settlement or do i have to wait. also if there is a limit or limits on how low a OTC can be be fore you cant short sell. ive read 5cents to 5$ its not very...

yes thats right. (over the counter)

Short Selling.

I have read a lot of things at the SEC website and i am wondering if anyone knows if there are selling limits. how low can a stock be in order to short it?? i know about borrowing shares, settlement and all of that but are there other limits that i havent seen yet. i have never shorted a OTC...

what i have incountered is that when you sell the position they charge 3x futures up front, which is ok (but id rather not if it can happen that way).. after it settles the next day it goes to span. the problem is finding the API that works with excel and that does futures and futures options...

does anyone know if there is a broker that uses SPAN margin when writing. everyone i have inquired with charges 3X Futures. i also need them to have a API that works with Excel and that realize a neutral trade and charge margin correctly. any ideas??

does anyone know were i can get intra-day historical implied futures options data???

right on man! thanks a whole lot. cant belive that didnt come up in my search. ;)

does anyone have a MATLAB to Interactive Brokers connection code i can use?

question about building a data base from exel data? if we are pulling excel tick data from our bloomberg how do we organize to be put into SQL? we have the data. we have SQL and MATLAB but we dont know how to organize the data itself. should the underlying be a seprate sheet from the...

i think we are mostly concerned about getting something that is out of date in a year or so. sence we dont really mess with servers we dont know whats what. at least want to get 4 or 5 years out it befoe we need to do any major updates. and something that can handle a lot of work and...