How can you use our API?

Overview

With our API, you can use your preferred programming language to create and run your own trading strategies and algorithms. You can also use our API to access and analyze various types of market data, such as prices, volumes, and instruments. You can also use our API to backtest your strategies and algorithms using historical data to see how they would have performed in the past.

In this documentation, you can learn how to use our API to implement trading strategies and algorithms, and:

Creating a trading strategy: How to define your trading objectives, identify your trading edge, select your trading instruments, and design your trading rules and criteria.
Coding a trading algorithm: How to translate your trading strategy into a computer program using our API. You will learn how to use the FCLite API commands to access market data, place and modify orders, monitor and manage positions, and handle errors and exceptions.
Running a trading algorithm: How to execute your trading algorithm using our API. You will learn how to connect to our servers, authenticate and authorize your application, and start and stop your algorithm. You will also learn how to monitor your algorithm's performance and activity using our API.
Backtesting a trading algorithm: How to test your trading algorithm using historical data using our API. You will learn how to access and use the historical data, set up the backtesting parameters, and evaluate the backtesting results.

Table of Contents
Trading Concepts An introduction to the fundamental concepts of Forex trading
What is an API and how does it work This article explains what APIs are and how they work
What are the different types of APIs and how are they used for trading This article describes the different types of APIs
How can you access our API and what are its advantages This article explains how to get access to our API
How can you use our API to implement trading strategies and algorithms This article explains how you canuse our API
Trading Commissions This article describes commissions that may be charged by a brokerage.
Session Statuses The article describes session statuses.