Recent content by Kafe

Hey guys, thanks for the info, especially the bit about the day-trading. I think I can avoid issues, as long as I avoid day-trading. The automated method is about prediction, rather than reaction, so maybe I will just trade to the best of my ability for the following day, rather than same-day...

Thanks for the advice. Yeah, IB seems far and away the best option. If I do it before my 25th birthday, I can have an account with a $3000 minimum instead. Sounds like the way to go, but I'm trying to find out if I can practice with the API before creating an account just like the other trial...

Thank you for your replies, and I'm sorry for the delay. IB seems far and above the best option. Unfortunately, they require a $10000 account minimum, one year of trading experience, and 100 trades. I don't know if they actually verify any of this; but it's kind of annoying that I have to use an...

I am brand new to trading, but I am interested in building an automated trading system in Java, and I've seen that certain brokers have APIs. I am looking for the simplest, but mostly the cheapest system that has a Java API, including broker + API. A manual interface is not needed, although...