Forex API Development

The FXTrade API allows customers to build trading functionality into their own software systems. The features of our popular FXTrade User Interface are now available in a flexible, easy-to-use software package.

Description

The API provides the ability to submit trade requests, set and modify stop-loss/take-profit/entry orders, obtain historical transactions and both current and historical FXTrade market rates and candlesticks.

A library is dynamically linked to the customer systems, and implements the FXTrade protocol, communicating directly with OANDA's FXTrade servers over secure and authenticated Internet sessions. It does not require that the FXTrade User Interface be running at the same time, but the customer may use the Interface to monitor in real time any actions taken by the customer systems using the API.

Features

Who would benefit from using the API?

The OANDA FXTrade system offers a long list of benefits to foreign exchange traders, such as 7/24 availability, the tightest spreads in Forex, immediate execution with full transparency, flexible deal sizes, continuous interest and multi-currency accounts.

Each of these is now available to customers who wish to build automated Forex systems, including:

Versions

Requirements

The customer must enter into the API License agreement, have a funded OANDA FXTrade and FXGame account, and is expected to have staff available with sufficient programming expertise capable of designing and implementing complex computer programs using either C++ or the Java programming language.

Pricing

OANDA will charge a license fee of USD $600 for the Library, after which the customer is entitled to two free months of use. Monthly fees of USD $600 will commence following this two month period, discounted by USD $50 for each USD $1M in trading volume generated on the account. Note that a monthly volume of USD $12M would entitle the customer to free API use.

Limitations

The license is specific to one FXTrade account and associated sub-accounts, as well as one FXGame account to be used for testing.

Getting Started

Once these two steps have been completed, we will email you the API Client Library and enable your FXGame test account for API access.

As an affiliate of GAIN Capital, FOREX.com offers clients access to GAIN AutoEx, a proprietary API that provides a continuous rate feed to proprietary black box models as well as supports fully automated trade execution.

GAIN AutoEx is unique in the FX world as it is offered as a true standards-based XML interface that can be programmed in any network accessible language, from Per-script to C++, Excel Macro to VB.NET managed code.

Two Business Functions, Two Technologies
The provision of the service is divided into two distinct technologies, each suitable for the business function that is asked of it.

FXDirectDealer offers real time prices and deal execution via our API to qualified institutions. The API is designed around our Enterprise Trading System and allows organizations to easily integrate with their existing trading platforms.

For additional information please contact us at sales@fxdd.com or via Telephone at 212-791-3933.

FXCM System Trading

Third Party Software

Institutional API

In an effort to provide the most powerful and well-documented API for users, FXCM has become a price maker on Currenex’s ESP trading platform. In this model, clients can interface proprietary software to Currenex’s platform, and still transact all orders with FXCM as the counterparty.

The first step of the integration process is to open a $250,000 live account with FXCM and sign and deliver the Currenex non-disclosure agreement to our system department at systemtrading@fxcm.com. Our system trading department will then forward the Currenex FIX Order Specification to the client and development can begin.

In order to connect, clients will need a FIX engine that implements this protocol. Currenex does not provide a specific FIX API, only a description of how Currenex-specific FIX messages should be formatted. If clients do not already use FIX, they can get list of vendors and systems from the FIX web site at www.fixprotocol.org.

Interactive Brokers API

Dukascopy trading webservice (API) is aimed to increase access into Dukascopy Market Machine through integration of other trading systems (e.g. there is a turnkey solution (API) with Omega trade station).

Registration

In order to register for using the service, you will have to send us request to API@dukascopy.com with your full name and contact details as well as a brief description of your analytical system (optional). In response e-mail you will receive your login and password that will allow you to access both standard Dukascopy trading platforms (you can use these to cross-check your trading results) AND to plug in your own platform to the Dukascopy system. You will be provided with a standard demo trading account with parameters replicating those of Dukascopy trading contest participants.

Please also register for a Dukascopy Data Feed account. Demo accounts are available as well.

Technical details

Trade services provided via Web Services - emerging technology for platform-independent software interoperability.

Learn more about Web Services here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/understanding/default.aspx. Service allows you to use your own customized analytical platforms for sending trading orders to trade systems

We made available our trade web service at http://freeserv.dukascopy.com/services/Trade2.

Its WSDL can be found at
http://freeserv.dukascopy.com/services/Trade2?wsdl.

To access the service and/or WSDL please enter your regular trading login/password (demo or live) with a prefix demo. (for demo accounts) or "pay." (for live accounts). Your password must not be altered.

WSDL (Web Services Description Language) describes web service interface and is used by different IDE's (Integrated Development Environment) to automatically generate proxy classes, which makes using remote web services in your application as easy as using your own local classes.

For example, to take advantage of our web service from your Microsoft .NET application just select "Add web reference" in Visual Studio .NET's solution explorer and enter our WSDL URL.

To use Trade web service from Java clients you will need a compatible SOAP protocol implementation, for example Apache Axis (http://ws.apache.org/axis/). See provided example class for detailed description of how to call our Trade web service from your Java client.

* Min. monthly volume required is $20 mln. (or flat fee $1000).

To contact Dukascopy about API accounts, please either write us at API@dukascopy.com, call +41 (22) 791 7050 or ask for call-back by clicking here.

Please note that Dukascopy will conduct a short screening process in order to ascertain whether Dukascopy is inclined to form a partnership with a certain individual or corporation.

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