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Public launches trading API
What Is The Best Free Stock Trading API?
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[FREE] Alpaca Markets - haven't tried it yet, but it's free, REST API, looks cool, has only stocks, haven't seen options or futures
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[FREE] RobinHood - you can find implementation of intercepted RobinHood API on GitHub, it's also free, REST API, but RH can ban you for using it, because they can barely handle load from manual traders, you can trade options for free
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IEX Exchange - it was free for non-profit organizations, brokers, and other exchanges, now it's available to retail traders for something like $5-$10 a month, only stocks, maybe currencies, no options or futures
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Interactive Brokers - so-o-o-o-o-o sl-o-o-o-o-w, it's ok to use it if you want to trade stocks, but getting options chain for only one single week takes minimum 30 seconds after all code optimizations, initial implementation took something around 5 minutes, if you have an account in IB, you only need to buy subscriptions to specific market data, aPI is free and kind of open-source, available on GitHub if you send them a request to add you to GitHub repository
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TD Ameritrade - works much much faster than IB, like milliseconds compared to minutes, has REST API for all kind of securities, but people say their API is still in beta mode, and Schwab is going to buy TDA soon, so some features, like API may be abandoned
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LightSpeed - they seem to have C++ and C# API, but it's attached to their platform, so you have to pay $300-$500 a month only to get their platform first
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[FREE] Meta Trader 5 - US stocks can be traded through Just 2 Trade - Finam, futures can be traded through AMP Futures, no options, API is free, but you have to create your own bridge between your program and MT5
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Quant Connect - stocks, options, and currencies, C# and Python API libraries, free for testing on historical data and $20 for real-time trading through IB gateway.
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IQ feed - perhaps the fastest way to get market data for options, but you still need a broker to send actual orders to buy or sell, costs around $50 a month
Is there any trading API that isn't complete shit?
Single quotes in JSON is invalid by definition, they should update their docs. Also that implies you’re creating JSON by concatinating a string, which is a bit of a weird thing to do.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/36038497
More on reddit.comIs there any free stock market API that allows publishing on a website?
Just got access to this yesterday and it’s pretty good! Esp if you throw into cursor and just start vibe coding some strategies that were too laborious before.
https://public.com/api
I know there are many different options as to which trading API to go with, but what are the pros and cons of each? I'm looking for a free API or close to free API which has minimal delay and can execute orders fast. What are my options, and which API is the best in terms of a performance over cost ratio?
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[FREE] Alpaca Markets - haven't tried it yet, but it's free, REST API, looks cool, has only stocks, haven't seen options or futures
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[FREE] RobinHood - you can find implementation of intercepted RobinHood API on GitHub, it's also free, REST API, but RH can ban you for using it, because they can barely handle load from manual traders, you can trade options for free
-
IEX Exchange - it was free for non-profit organizations, brokers, and other exchanges, now it's available to retail traders for something like $5-$10 a month, only stocks, maybe currencies, no options or futures
-
Interactive Brokers - so-o-o-o-o-o sl-o-o-o-o-w, it's ok to use it if you want to trade stocks, but getting options chain for only one single week takes minimum 30 seconds after all code optimizations, initial implementation took something around 5 minutes, if you have an account in IB, you only need to buy subscriptions to specific market data, aPI is free and kind of open-source, available on GitHub if you send them a request to add you to GitHub repository
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TD Ameritrade - works much much faster than IB, like milliseconds compared to minutes, has REST API for all kind of securities, but people say their API is still in beta mode, and Schwab is going to buy TDA soon, so some features, like API may be abandoned
-
LightSpeed - they seem to have C++ and C# API, but it's attached to their platform, so you have to pay $300-$500 a month only to get their platform first
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[FREE] Meta Trader 5 - US stocks can be traded through Just 2 Trade - Finam, futures can be traded through AMP Futures, no options, API is free, but you have to create your own bridge between your program and MT5
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Quant Connect - stocks, options, and currencies, C# and Python API libraries, free for testing on historical data and $20 for real-time trading through IB gateway.
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IQ feed - perhaps the fastest way to get market data for options, but you still need a broker to send actual orders to buy or sell, costs around $50 a month
Checkout https://mboum.com/api/documentation - it offers stocks, options, insider trading, more