If one is going to write a trading system in PHP, I suggest using a brokerage with a webservice API rather than a direct FIX one. I've written...
So are you saying that this is not a technical glitch? I looked up the term "shading" the practice of brokers manipulating prices seems to be...
I've been noticing that at certain instances the ask price is less than the bid price. What does this mean and is it a regular occurrence? Or is...
I'm new to short selling stocks and wanted to know some of the technical order execution concerns people have faced. I understand the fundamental...
Say we are talking about a stock with a small spread and you want a quick turnover. In a long position, you are buying at the ask price and...
I have a rather elementary question that I am almost embarrassed to ask. What is the actual price paid when you short sell a stock?...
I found some links on the subject, but some seem a bit convoluted if you are not a tax accountant, IMHO....
Yes, I was imagining that is what one would do.
True. But say you owned 100%. If you didn't want to accept the profits for a given year, you can defer them for a later date that may be more...
Likewise, I'm not tax expert either. I suppose you'd only be able to deduct commissions and possibly any losses that are realized. I think the...
Could people discuss the benefits and drawbacks of opening a stock brokerage account as an LLC? Wouldn't personal funds provided to the LLC for...
I think I just discovered a new API, and one that supports XML! E*Trade just launched their API in April at...
Let's just say that I need the API to work easily with a web browser.
Essentially, an XML based API is platform agnostic and can even be accessed through a common web browser. Most of the other quote API use sockets...
I mean an XML API for quotes, not for trade executions.
All the links are to services that provide delayed quotes or live data from a single exchange (i.e., BATS for Yahoo).
This would be to trade. I would probably need to evaluate 1 to 10 symbols per request. L2 is not a requirement. I wanted to see if there...
Does anyone know of any place that offers real time stock quotes via a XML, REST, or SOAP API? I don't mind paying a small fee and it can be...
Someone already asked a similar question of whether the source code must be shared. The response was: Of course, no. You dont even need to send...
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