Hi Jason. Can you talk more about the REST API, is it a new thing? It says it is in testing phase?
I can find the following links about it
https://github.com/FXCMAPI/FXCM-API-Offerings
https://fxcmapi.github.io/rest-api-docs/#
https://github.com/FXCMAPI/rest-api-docs <-- Is this section supposed to be visible to the public?
But nothing is mentioned on the official site, only API's listed are ForexConnect (lua, java), IndicoreSDK (lua), FIX, and QuantConnect (c#, python, web based)
Do you require special privileges to use the REST API? A minimal account size like with FIX? (5k). I know I had to ask FXCM support to enable my account to connect using ForexConnect at first as I was getting a ZDas exception error.
I am very interested in it as it use Python, which is my main language of choice, and I will try follow the examples to get live price data feed to my sample app, create a strategy, and execute trades.
I was told there is a python wrapper being made for ForexConnect too
Also, have you heard of the other tools available by guys at Gehtsoft (fxcodebase.com) such as StrategyRunner, IndicatorRunner, ConsoleOptimiser, ConsoleBacktester that come with the SDK and others like the Price Downloader, Live tick data export to csv, DDE quotes in Excel, FX Strategy Wizard, etc...? I wish all these things were listed in one place somewhere as it took a while to gather what is what and where it comes from. Appreciate your response regarding the REST API, and whether you'd recommend it to run fully algorithmic trading setup 24/5 mainly for scalping
I can find the following links about it
https://github.com/FXCMAPI/FXCM-API-Offerings
https://fxcmapi.github.io/rest-api-docs/#
https://github.com/FXCMAPI/rest-api-docs <-- Is this section supposed to be visible to the public?
But nothing is mentioned on the official site, only API's listed are ForexConnect (lua, java), IndicoreSDK (lua), FIX, and QuantConnect (c#, python, web based)
Do you require special privileges to use the REST API? A minimal account size like with FIX? (5k). I know I had to ask FXCM support to enable my account to connect using ForexConnect at first as I was getting a ZDas exception error.
I am very interested in it as it use Python, which is my main language of choice, and I will try follow the examples to get live price data feed to my sample app, create a strategy, and execute trades.
I was told there is a python wrapper being made for ForexConnect too
Also, have you heard of the other tools available by guys at Gehtsoft (fxcodebase.com) such as StrategyRunner, IndicatorRunner, ConsoleOptimiser, ConsoleBacktester that come with the SDK and others like the Price Downloader, Live tick data export to csv, DDE quotes in Excel, FX Strategy Wizard, etc...? I wish all these things were listed in one place somewhere as it took a while to gather what is what and where it comes from. Appreciate your response regarding the REST API, and whether you'd recommend it to run fully algorithmic trading setup 24/5 mainly for scalping