What online brokers offer APIs?

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Wilco picture Wilco · Sep 12, 2008 · Viewed 108.2k times · Source

So I'm getting really sick of E*TRADE and, being a developer, would love to find an online broker that offers an API. It would be great to be able to write my own trading tools, and maybe even modify existing ones.

Based on my research so far, I've only found one option. Interactive Brokers offers a multi-language API (Java/C++/ActiveX/DDE) and has some fairly decent commission rates to boot. I want to make sure there aren't any other options out there I should be considering. Any ideas?

Update: Based on answers so far, here's a quick list...

Answer

kamajo picture kamajo · Sep 12, 2008

I vote for IB(Interactive Brokers). I've used them in the past as was quite happy. Pinnacle Capital Markets trading also has an API (pcmtrading.com) but I haven't used them.

Interactive Brokers:

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Fsoftware%2Fibapi.php

Pinnacle Capital Markets:

http://www.pcmtrading.com/es/technology/api.html

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