Etrade API ideas

[domesticllama]

I'm in the process of getting an etrade API key and am looking for some ideas on what data to grab. As of now, I'm planning on grabbing account data. I also have some stocks and option chains I'd like to watch, so I'll probably grab that and set up some type of alerts on them.

I am not looking for trading strategy or datamining applications. I would be interested in if anyone has a backtester skeleton program (preferrably java although I can translate if need be. Doesn't need etrade API integration). Any other ideas of tooling to work on would be appreciated. I code for a living, so it doesn't have to be simplistic.

 

[tommcginnis]

Cart way before the horse.

Decide what you're wanting as an end-product; otherwise, your message is a mess of contradictions.

 

[domesticllama]

Cart way before the horse.

Decide what you're wanting as an end-product; otherwise, your message is a mess of contradictions.

Just looking to familiarize myself with the etrade api. If I do come up with a specific problem I want to solve, I can focus on problem solving not api navigation.

 

[Jeff Brady]

I use the Tradier API to teach. One of the most common project folks to is to build a simple watchlist mobile app. Its fairly simple to do.