What else do you know about this kind of API's? can you trade with them? or are they just indicatives for the graf's, and you have to go through the normal platform?
What else do you know about this kind of API's? can you trade with them? or are they just indicatives for the graf's, and you have to go through the normal platform?
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I use the MBT API and it has all the functions that are available on the MBT platform (their own client application uses the same API), MBT offers no hystorical data, so there is no API for that.
I just got an email from another trader who told me that CoesFX has a .NET API. They're client platform is Java based, so, I wouldn't be surprised if they also had a Java API. I believe it is free.
Also, would you also consider using the MetaTrader API? That would open you up to a whole bunch of other brokers as well. Also, HotSpotFX has a whitelabel program supported by an API.
On the whole, I think you have a lot of options. In the end, it will depend on who you want to do business with and the value of that business to you.
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Stockwet is correct, CoesFX does offer a .NET API (very simple to use). Like MBT, they do not offer historical data...and it is free.
I was also going to suggest looking into MQL (Meta Trader) which offers some form of historical data and alerts...I'm not so sure about automated trading because I think it always pops the confirm buy message...I'm not sure if there is a way to surpress this.
One of the projects that I did was to integrate Wealth-Lab developer and MBT and a historical SQL Server database. That seemed to work well.
You can suppress the popup alerts in MT4. There's a setting in Tools | Options | Experts that you check to confirm live trading. Uncheck it and trades will execute without notification. It's quite nice.
I tell you what I would REALLY want to see on the market. I think that MT4 and MQL are a robust combo. But, if you want to have your experts go, you have to have MT4 running all the time. It would be nice to have an MT4 process, rather than have the whole application run. In other words, there's a mini application that runs my experts but hides itself on the taskbar or something. That would be way cool.
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Stockwet is correct, CoesFX does offer a .NET API (very simple to use). Like MBT, they do not offer historical data...and it is free.
I was also going to suggest looking into MQL (Meta Trader) which offers some form of historical data and alerts...I'm not so sure about automated trading because I think it always pops the confirm buy message...I'm not sure if there is a way to surpress this.
One of the projects that I did was to integrate Wealth-Lab developer and MBT and a historical SQL Server database. That seemed to work well.
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You can suppress the popup alerts in MT4. There's a setting in Tools | Options | Experts that you check to confirm live trading. Uncheck it and trades will execute without notification. It's quite nice.
I tell you what I would REALLY want to see on the market. I think that MT4 and MQL are a robust combo. But, if you want to have your experts go, you have to have MT4 running all the time. It would be nice to have an MT4 process, rather than have the whole application run. In other words, there's a mini application that runs my experts but hides itself on the taskbar or something. That would be way cool.
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I love the idea of a service or a system tray app running experts. I did another project for a separate client that did an MBT auto-trade service. Then he ran it on a server at Rackspace. To my knowledge, it's still running...I have no idea if he's making money with it, though.
I use the MBT API and it has all the functions that are available on the MBT platform (their own client application uses the same API), MBT offers no hystorical data, so there is no API for that.
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RoBik ~
I hope to make you pleasantly surprised sooner then later with regards to your comments about MB not having historical data yet via the API.
I have done most of my auto trading at MIG. MT4 is very robust, but built for the broker to make more money. All in all I like MIG and have had success there, but hate how sometimes they don't fill my orders when they ar hit on the chart! And they requote a lot so I don't like to use market orders there.
Later I used Oanda's API and I really liked the market conditions in general, and not requotes and very rarely did they deny on order, and when they did you could tell it was a false spike. The downside there was that my program kept having problems about every day or two that would need to be manually restarted. If I were a professional programmer, I probably could have fixed though.
Right now I am talking to Hotspot about using their API, but they told me my daily average volume of about 27-28 lots was less than they usually require to use the API. They said they usually want a minimum of 50 lots a day. I made need to beef up my trading to get the lower spreads.
