FXcm API?

Try contacting REFCO directly refcogroup dot com

Have you tried emulating the Market Order dialogue box’s communication with the main window? perhaps it sends some windows messages with the order information to the main window. I’m not sure how to intercept these messages.

you could probably make the Market Order window not visible and then enter in the order info via SendMessage and work “behind the scenes” of the computer user. Then you can continiously poll the Orders window to see when the order got executed. Also you can use ping to check if the internet is still alive.

Why are you using FXCM anyway? f o r e x . c o m offers an API if you ask them for it. it is a SOAP based API.

That costs $500. wayy too expensive for someone who can write such a program for himself with a little work.

The free version doesn’t let us put in our own strategy it seems….

Check my last post on this thread for info on Gain’s API. I am not using it myself, but would appreciate any feedback from your efforts.

http://www.moneytec.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=49610

Appreciate posts of your evaluation of them on either thread, I am subscribed to both.

Gain Capital has an excellent reputation.

Gordon

Well, as I’ve seen a lot of solutions to my problem I came to a conclusion, this is crap … and I will argument this…
One of the first things that I’ve learned at the beginning was that a trade order is composed like this:

+ [StopLoss] + [TakeProfit]

Am I wrong or what? Well, what ever you’re going to say, I never enter in a trade without at least SL set … I’m not stupid…
Because one should always know before enter a trade how much is going to win, or how much is accepting to loose.
In FXCM’s Trade Station (and in others) you can an order like that above … why does anybody else don’t do something like that?

Eg. BuyMarket(pair, lot’s, sl, tp)

… of course, you can monitor yourself when an SL or TP is hit and close position, but what’s happen in this case, with those guaranteed execution on SL and limit orders that FXCM and others brag about? In this case you will take all the slippage hit… right?
Well, in some cases (like Gain API’s) you can place an simple order and later you can modify it to set SL and TP because the complex order like “PlaceSingleOrder” or “PlaceOCOOrder” takes about 60 seconds to be placed in the order process (and this doesn??????t mean that is going to be executed), in some other cases the internet connection can cause problems.
I still can’t understand why FXCM and Refco keep’s their API’s secret, more than that, why every single time that I have sent an email requesting info, they never answer me? Or why every single time that I chat online with their technical advisors, they keep sending me to those people that never answer by email? Why Oanda’s API cost that much? Maybe to keep it out of reach?
I’m being paranoid here, but why they keep secret something that should be public and free? Conspiration Theory?
And, despite what anybody says about “Automatic Trading”, let’s take something into consideration:

There are at least 3 “most-important” facts:
1. There should be at least one strategy with specific rules (enter, exit, SL, TP)
2. discipline should be the first quality that a trader should have
3. knowledge

You can use your knowledge to make those rules understanded by a computer (through programming) and benefit from computer discipline to execute trades perfectly. Everybody knows that FOREX is a 2-way market and the prices can go only up or down (well … can go sideways for a while), so pretty much you can use any damn indicator or astrological prediction (if you want) to be right 50%+1 trade (you can try that through backtesting, you??????re be amazed how many indicators give that 50+), that’s it and here’s your profit … do it 1.000.000 times and you’re rich, a computer can do it for you, if it has the means … and without letting human mind interfering.
As I said, a computer can do it if it has the means … but from what I’ve observed, it has not, it is not allowed to, you are not allowed to … so, all this being said, despite of their rules, I will keep on trying to beat the system by hacking into their software (for example), I don’t like this one bit (using hooks and callbacks) but since I have no other options, I’ll do it.

well … I can use that sequence, but my problem with it is that I have an 32-128 kbps internet connection (min and max) with about 90%/day link with http://www.fxcorporate.com (wich is the main fxcm transaction server) and an average 1000 ms access response time, this is pretty weak, I cannot afford an larger band because, for example 1MBps costs around 1.000$+VAT plus rent for equipment (total cost is about 1.500$/month), I’m from romania, btw… this is why I don’t trust this kind of “script”, I have great chances that the open order will execute and the TP or SL order will not (in useful time), that’s why I need a complete order setup, in this way that order will or will not execute without any real damage … I did have some bad experience with my internet connection in the past … and I should admit, I did have some mouse caused damage (was wireless and my batteries went dead just before closing a trade … but this was off-topic).

… and, as you have guessed by now, I’m an scalper, I trade for a few pips, I do scan the market for anomalies and take advantage of them … and more than that, I do not trade within market opening hours, fundamentals releases, or news activity … only on quiet market time … for this reasons, most of my orders will execute.

I have not succesfully tested dynaorder because I cannot send any orders to the server, maybe is some problem with my operationg system (I did have some problem on installation), even though the rest of functions worked perfectly, but pretty much I’m confident that can work; I did have studied in details all the DO API functions available for VB6 and those from Gain …
since now, for automated trading testing purposes, I used MetaTrader, wich is btw an work of art, and my own software with DDE link to MT, API link to DO, system hooks to FXTS, and for backtesting purposes, with 10sec data from dukascopy website …