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I got so incredibly frustrated with TradeStation/EasyLanguage, I've decided to try and code my automated strategy in Python. I'd need a minimum $10,000 (which I don't have yet) to even use their WebAPI, but not sure I'd want to go back anyway. Many are complaining in their forums about the godawful documentation, which seems to be their infamy in general. But before I get too deep, I wanted to ask around for recommendations regarding what broker API folks are using for this purpose. It's somewhat confusing trying to figure out which APIs are actually for trading, and which are not. So far, I've gotten the impression Interactive Brokers is the "only game in town" for automated futures trading, though I've seen Alpaca mentioned for stocks. Ironbeam mentions an API, but as far as I can tell it's an API for the platform.
TIA
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okey. You only use the platform to connect to broker no need to learn the platform . But i guess it only works with AMP as broker for futures. It was not that hard to do my brother who never programmed in Phyton nor used MT5 got it up and working in 1 week so now we can send orders, read orders, history from phyton to AMP via Mt5. Just tried it and learning Phyton so thats why i posted the answer.
Looks like I might go with MT5 after all. There was no ready-made solution in Python for something as seemingly simple as tick charts, which is what my trading is based on. Still don't understand how the non-packaged solutions work since I've only ever used TradeStation. If MT5 can use CQG data does that mean any broker compatible with CQG can use MT5? Or is that CQG datafeed only and not execution? I've also seen a post that says MT5 has bad slippage because orders go through an extra step of servers.
https://alpaca.markets/data
Alpaca Data API is your new go-to stock data API for building trading apps & algorithmic trading strategies. ... securities derivative or futures products of any kind, or any type of trading or investment advice, recommendation or strategy, given or in any manner endorsed by AlpacaDB, Inc. or any AlpacaDB, Inc. affiliate and the information ...
I copied that paragraph yesterday from the results of a search query I executed at https://duckduckgo.com/. So it is text in their search engine gathered from crawling.
I search again this morning and found this Dec 2020 comment.