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[NjZ]

Screen scraping is very rarely a good option.

Try looking here, http://api.efxnow.com/Docs

You can open an account with a few different brokers (gain, forex, gtforex etc) and use this API to get both historical and live prices (as well as automate your trades).

I havnt used it as yet, but will be when I get some free time to interface it, again it assumes you have some programming knowledge.

[autofx]

I must be rare, then. It works phenomenally well for me.

All exchange rates are EXACTLY the dealing
rates, since they are taken directly from the trading
software.

I haven't had a problem related to this for months, and
when I used to have problems, it was because there was
some idiosyncrocy of Automate I wasn't aware of yet.

[NjZ]

Hey I'm happy it doesnt cause you problems and I hope when you're putting down cash they dont shift a few table cells around.

Myself I'll stick with "screen scraping is very rarely a good option", I'd prefer a dedicated, provided format because it doesnt take a great deal of change to screw a scrape and stuff a regex.

Its not up for argument.

[dacoffey]

Another option is to sniff the HTTP traffic to the Trading Station.

[autofx]

NjZ,

None of what you say applies to my method.

Again, never any problems. Sorry if that doesn't dovetail with your view of reality. It doesn't need to.

dacoffey,

Do you employ a sniffing method yourself?

[dacoffey]

dacoffey,

Do you employ a sniffing method yourself? [/B]

Yes, I use Perl and Net::PcapUtils to get the data and store it to a SQL server.

[shapper]

Please,

can someone tell me how much to i have to pay to use this API and what brokers do you sugest me to use?

Thanks,
Miguel

[ntrend]

will this work for fxcm? are there any docs links?

[MrMee]

As far as I know FXCM doesn't actually have historical data and what you see is data from someone else that is simply close to what FXCM has.
I would suggest checking out the actual url of the charts, finding out a bit about the system (if they offer stream and prices) and/or attempt to intercept your HTTP traffic and see what's in there.