CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage.
74.74% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.
You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.
This SDK is designed to get trading data, trade, load price histories and subscribe for the most recent prices. It is intended to be used by FXCM clients on auto-trading robots and systems, chart and market analysis application, custom trading application on FXCM accounts.
Forex Connect supports C++, C#, Java, VB, VBA, Windows, Linux and smart phones. And it is free.
You can use ForexConnect on Trading station account, no extra setup required.
If using O2G2 namespace, keep in mind that it is currently deprecated as it has not been updated since the beginning of 2015. It may give the users errors or not be compatible in certain cases.
- A FXCM TSII account. You can apply for a demo account here.
- Download ForexConnect SDK
- Examples codes and documents are at ForexConnectAPI packages after installed.
- Online documents: Getting Started
- ForexConnect with Matlab, at here.
- ForexConnect sample code for Android/iOS/macOS/Python/Linux/Windows, at here.
- ForexConnect on Python at here
- URL="www.fxcorporate.com/Hosts.jsp"
- Username="you username"
- Password="your password"
- Connection="demo"
- You can ignore SessionID and PIN
Windows 32bit and 64bit – Visual Studio 2005 and up
Linux 32bit and 64bit – Eclipse
Table manager preload all tables to your local memoery, it is an in-memory representation of API tables. The table manager allows you to subscribe to table change events such as updates, adding rows, or removing rows. It is important to note that the
SummaryTable is only accessible through the table manager.
Table manager presents a performance decrease because it is constantly recalculating fields.
Non-table manager allow you to capture table updates adhoc via the use of a class that implements theIO2GResponseListener interface. It give performance advantage but you need to calculate some fields such as PipCost or P/L.
You need to request the table from server. please refer to NonTableManagerSamples/PrintTable example program.
private static O2GAccountRow GetAccount(O2GSession session)
{
O2GResponseReaderFactory readerFactory = session.getResponseReaderFactory();
if (readerFactory == null)
{
throw new Exception("Cannot create response reader factory");
}
O2GLoginRules loginRules = session.getLoginRules();
O2GResponse response = loginRules.getTableRefreshResponse(O2GTableType.Accounts);
O2GAccountsTableResponseReader accountsResponseReader = readerFactory.createAccountsTableReader(response);
for (int i = 0; i < accountsResponseReader.Count; i++)
{
O2GAccountRow accountRow = accountsResponseReader.getRow(i);
Console.WriteLine("AccountID: {0}, Balance: {1}", accountRow.AccountID, accountRow.Balance);
}
return accountsResponseReader.getRow(0);
}
For pricehistory, you need to use non-table manage. You can see examples under NonTableManagerSamples/GetHistPrices
- Learn how to build and backtest Rsi signals using ForexConnect API at here.
- Learn how to build and backtest CCI Oscillator strategy using ForexConnect API at here.
- Learn how to build and backtest Breakout strategy using ForexConnect API at here.
- Learn how to build and backtest Range Stochastic Strategy using ForexConnect API at here.
- Learn how to build and backtest Mean Reversion Strategy using ForexConnect API at here.
- Some examples like attached stop limit to position, create if-then ELS order, get rollover at here.
- ForexConnect with Matlab, is coming....
- Using ForexConnect downloading historical data at here.
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o For more information, you may contact us: api@fxcm.com
Our price streams are moving from http to https using TLSv1.2 since 6/16/2019, to increase security on our price servers. Please make sure client side software is compatible with TLSv1.2. Clients use ForexConnect API, Java API will be affected. The error you will get: ‘Can't connect to price server.’ if you have any questions, please reach out to api@fxcm.com.
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