Hello
I'm a software developer new to investing. I have invested into an index but currently I'm interested in testing if I could develop swing trading strategies that are profitable in the long term. I'm thinking of starting with forex trading. My plan would be to create my own software that integrates into a trading platform so that I can easily generate charts that I need myself etc. I'm nowhere near ready to invest sufficient amounts of money yet, so I will be just backtesting and simulating trading for probably quite a while. Now I'm at the stage that I'm looking for a trading platform that would fill these requirements:
- Has a public API to get (near) real time data and to place orders at reasonable cost (web API is fine)
- Reasonable fees and low minimum balance requirement (I will be starting small if I have something I think might work)
- Offers historical data (I can possibly get this from a different source)
I have found TrueFX that offers forex data but heard their data might have some issues. Namely it lacks volume information and some data is missing. Interactive Broker's API seems good but they have a pretty high minimum balance requirement.
Thanks!
Submitted September 16, 2017 at 02:43PM by Dimplexion http://ift.tt/2w0kNs3
