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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i think we are mostly concerned about getting something that is out of date in a year or so.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...

equinix is the biggest data server/ provider in the states maybe the world. bloomberg, reuters and all the big cats set up camp there. direct into the exchanges. the fiber is directly connected to the exchange it self. my quetion is about the server hardware. we have to provide it...

anybody know or have ever had a server hooked up at equinix. and have any advice for server hardware for blackbox trading? and fiber optics?

thanks winston for all the imput. its helping a lot ;) thanks for all of the others that helping too. thank you!

Hm, sorry. * Outdated CPU * WAY too little RAM for the CPU to play with * Slow drives. Gratulations ;) Not a bad computer, but I would not cal lthat "sick fast". the quad core can be split in to 8. its liquid cooled system. besides not using seta drives i think it does the job...

im saying that the database needs to be compatible with c# and C++ because the GREY box we are building now is in c# but the next 1 one will be a black box so we dont want to have to build a seprate data base fo rthe c++ if possible???

our computer is sick fast. quaud core, 12 gigs af ram. we didnt skimp on the cpu at all. we have 2 Tb drives for now. 1 for the OS and one for storage. we have a case that can can 5 drives in it that pull out. so i think we are ok on the computer for now.. maybe we will need another...

i will try to answer everyone .. the prgrammers are stock guys mostly and we are commodity guys.. they wanted to build the system on thier server and host it there, and use silver light for the program to be accessed at first. they do have a data base, but its all stocks and futures...

also had a question about excel. we can get free tick and historical data from our bloomberg as of right n ow. but we have no idea how to orginze it and have it ready for the programers.. is regular excel files organized by date good enough for now?.. we can only pull a couple days at...

you can create a black box trading program but you can't create a database? well we have two programers that we have working on the program, connecting the fix and all of that , but we are trying to help them out with the data base. the programers are working form out of the state so...