[TradeKing] really closes? How about their API?

[jk90029]

It seems that TradeKing is closing to be another broker(Ally?), based on their website TradeKing.com

How about their privious API connection by R (https://www.r-project.org/).

Possibly, the new broker MAY NOT BE CONNECTED by R API.

Is it true? Appreciated if someone tells me what I am misunderstood.

-Jay

PS) Is there any other brokers, which uses R for API connection?

 

[Robert Morse]

They were bought by a bank. What is the advantage of "R" over FIX.

 

[jk90029]

They were bought by a bank. What is the advantage of "R" over FIX.

It is just a personal reason.

Recently many have favourite language, such as R or Python. I became R user by chance.

 

[Robert Morse]

Got it. We don't offer that one on any of our Equity/Option APIs.

 

[jk90029]

Got it. We don't offer that one on any of our Equity/Option APIs.

If I am correct, TradeKing was ONLY ONE broker which support R.

So possibly there is NO (more) broker which use R, in US.
However there are many which supports Python, which I am learning recently.

Here is IB connection via Python.

 

[gkishot]

They were bought by a bank. What is the advantage of "R" over FIX.

Fix is just a protocol. R is a programming language with its own development environment.

 

[truetype]

API connection by R (https://www.r-project.org/). Possibly, the new broker MAY NOT BE CONNECTED by R API.

Have you looked at the R package IBrokers?

 

[toonerdy]

R is a language for working with statistics. You are almost certainly referring to some library for R that interfaces to TradeKing's protocols.

I have never used R, but I have adapted some trivial software in another language that did queries with TradeKing's protocols.

The last time I looked into it, TradeKing used a protocol based on OpenAuth, XML, etc., very similar to what I believe is offered by TD Ameritrade, E-Trade and Tradier, the latter of which I was told got much of its initial technical staff from TradeKing.

 

[jk90029]

R is a language for working with statistics. You are almost certainly referring to some library for R that interfaces to TradeKing's protocols.

I have never used R, but I have adapted some trivial software in another language that did queries with TradeKing's protocols.

The last time I looked into it, TradeKing used a protocol based on OpenAuth, XML, etc., very similar to what I believe is offered by TD Ameritrade, E-Trade and Tradier, the latter of which I was told got much of its initial technical staff from TradeKing.

Possibly you mean we can use R to connect servers of "TD Ameritrade, E-Trade and Tradier".

If there is some known tool in R
1) to login
2) to get what I hold currently
3) to send my new order (matrix) to their server

then, please let me know.

More brokers supports Python than R, for API connection. Only a few allow R.

 

[jk90029]

Have you looked at the R package IBrokers?

Great. Appreciated you might give me what I am waiting for long time.