Most people don't even know what a Stop is. When you have full time job, wife(s), kids and life ...Even when one knows about it, most don't know how to use it properly. Too complicated !!! :-)
Learning how to program and eventually write your own stuff ... is a long term investment. Depending on your goals and how much effort you want to invest in this activity, you need to decide if it is worth the efforts. After struggling to find what I needed, I decided to write my own. However...
@Polygon.io : Quick question. I know you already have stocks, options, forex and crypto data. Do you have any plans for Futures data as well? If yes, any idea about the timeframe?
Last I checked on Options, it was in beta. Is it fully available yet?
Was a little lazy in my first response. Here is the answer to both (dividend and split)
https://polygon.io/docs/stocks/get_v2_reference_dividends__stocksTicker
https://polygon.io/docs/stocks/get_v2_reference_splits__stocksTicker
In my humble opinion, that's indeed the best way to play most crypto. Don't plan on owning the asset long term, instead own the tools around it. Or play the swings.
I'm a python programmer and I want to get into futures trading automation. I have used Alpaca(equities), Tradier(Options) and Oanda (forex). Any REST enable platform for commodity/index futures trading you would recommend?