Does anyone know a good API for stock/bond trading?

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We want to implement it in our Plutus Wallet app and looking a partner for it. Maybe someone can recommend something like this?

Matthias Hagemann · Accepted Answer

What exactly are you looking for? I’ve build applications that pull real-time market data and company information using https://iexcloud.io/. Quandl also has a ton of useful data, the probably most accurate for historical closing prices: https://www.quandl.com/data/EOD-End-of-Day-US-Stock-Prices

There’s also https://alpaca.markets/ that is an API-only brokerage.

Rohan Talip · Answer

Hi Mike, have you looked at Interactive Brokers' API?  I was investigating it myself a while back but I haven't used it yet.  See https://www.strategic-options.com/insight/2019/06/13/the-best-and-worst-stock-and-option-trading-apis/ for a comparison with a couple of other APIs.

Mike Fedorov · Answer

@rohan_talip @yakitos Wow. Awesome. I never thought that Yahoo Finance would be OK to work with 3rd party API

Mike Fedorov · Answer

@mhagemann Thanks. We are looking for websocket data streaming. The alpaca is in our short list now :)

Mike Fedorov · Answer

@rohan_talip Thank you. Excellent advice! I'll research more about them.

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Alpaca is a commission free, API-first stock brokerage platform. With Alpaca, developers can manage capital, stocks, and algorithms in one integrated system. The Alpaca Trade APITrack this API a REST-based interface that connects applications with a real-time brokerage service. The API is used to access account information, orders, positions, assets, and more. The company also offers the Alpaca Paper Trading APITrack this API to enable developers to test code, resetting an algorithm as much as necessary to test it using free, real-time market data. As well as a Streaming APITrack this API which uses Websockets for realtime updates about account changes or trades.

Does anyone know a good API for stock/bond trading?

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