I'm building an app and one of it's features will be the calculation of profit and loss. I want this to be applicable to most major market indexes from equities, to futures to currencies, etc. So, is there some sort of API that I can use that would import the data and when a user enters the entry and exit price, it calculates their P&L? Without me having to manually key in every tick value per instrument.
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Depending on which broker you use you might be able to get that instrument information via their API. For example: with IBKR you can request so-called contract information.
That simple, huh? Here I was thinking that I'd have to go through some independent dealer in API data.
Cool, it's called a "portfolio manager" and the one I worked on had 100s of developers work on it for 10+ years and still didn't do all that, so good luck!
I get all of that....Cool, it's called a "portfolio manager" and the one I worked on had 100s of developers work on it for 10+ years and still didn't do all that, so good luck!
But, I've come a long way since posting this. It turned out to be simpler than what I thought from the front-end but it's the back-end that's gonna be an issue.