I''m starting a new hobby. Going to learn about and have a try at building some automated trading systems for forex and other markets. So far I''ve been very disappointed with the results of my googling looking for a broker and/or third-party product to use as a bridge between the software I will build and an actual trading account. Since I already know a bit about Rails, I''m thinking I would like to start there even if it isn''t the most obvious platform from which to do this sort of thing. It does, however, provide a familiar set of tools I expect to use such as Ruby and mySQL front end. At the same time, once it gets to that point it can make it easy to create an administrative control panel for my trading activities that would be accessible from anywhere (with a strong password ;) ) Thanks for any hints you can give me on where to find an easy access point to this world from Rails. jp -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
The thing is to make your rails app communicate with the broker''s api. Like any other webservice. There is nothing specific to trading except the rails app will act as a daemon and will communicate all the time with the web service. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
Fernando Perez wrote:> The thing is to make your rails app communicate with the broker''s api. > Like any other webservice. There is nothing specific to trading except > the rails app will act as a daemon and will communicate all the time > with the web service.Thanks Fernando, Yeah, I get that. There just don''t seem to be any big, stable companies providing such a web service. So far I''ve found "forex.com" soap-based service to be about the best looking one out there, but it isn''t very good and looks like it has an extremely small set of customers. There forum only has a handful of posts from 2010. I would hate to do a bunch of work to get there only to find out the "portals" are all two-bit companies that come and go on a regular basis. Though perhaps any company that has survived the past couple of years in the financial-sector has some staying power. Idunno. If anybody out there has found one that seems better than forex.com, please let me know. thanks, jp -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.