anyone using Oanda API Vbnet
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If the darn API didn't cost $600/month + $600 initial fee, I'd be all over that. I assume this is what it still costs (as that's what the web site says)?
Oh well. Maybe someday they'll make it a more accesible API for little traders (like me). Long live IB's free API! 
FXCM provides their API free of charge.
I have FXCM's beta code. It's all in dot Com not Dot net.
I'm curious why they wrote it in dot Com.
They also wrote it in such a way that it appears you have to sit in front of your computer all day. There's clicks to buy and msgboxs etc. They also require 250,000 in your account.
I wrote to www.dukascopy in Switerland. They have an API written in VBnet but it's only free if you trade 50million per month.
Oanda's is free if you trade 12 million per month.
Interactive Broker's API is also in Dot Com not Dot Net. Dot Com is the past and dot Net the future. Why are these broker's sitting in the past ?
I'm curious why they wrote it in dot Com.
They also wrote it in such a way that it appears you have to sit in front of your computer all day. There's clicks to buy and msgboxs etc. They also require 250,000 in your account.
I wrote to www.dukascopy in Switerland. They have an API written in VBnet but it's only free if you trade 50million per month.
Oanda's is free if you trade 12 million per month.
Interactive Broker's API is also in Dot Com not Dot Net. Dot Com is the past and dot Net the future. Why are these broker's sitting in the past ?
My guess would be alot of these systems components were designed and implemented way before the .NET hype so can you cant really blame them, .NET a few years ago was a joke.
FXCM just created their API Beta version created in Dot Com and not Dot Net. I've been conversing with Realtick and they tell me that with Dot Net you can have quotes streaming into your program and you don't have to request them. It seems with most of these Forex Brokers you have to request your quotes.