Any spread betting sites that have web service access?

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vlc replied

17 February 2012, 11:08
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

Hi,

I have a daft idea to use an automated program to place and close spread bets for me. Therefore I need a company that offers a spread betting service that has an automated interface (ideally Web Service).

Does such a thing exist or is everyone expected to sit at a browser 24/7 making and closing bets?

TIA

DP

Did you make any progress with this?
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RSoles replied

20 August 2007, 15:15
http://www.fundies.info/
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King Cnvt replied

19 August 2007, 18:06
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EFTSE

download CSV at bottom of the page. You can of course change the symbol to anything you want.
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Frep D'Oronge replied

19 August 2007, 13:46
Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post

But I think trading is a mugs game - I've never found a strategy that provides a positive expectancy for returns. All the back-testing I've ever done has returned approximately neutral.

But I'm still searching.

On a side note, does anyone know of a source for historical financial data? even if it is as coarse as daily open/close/high/low/volume? This is for offline 'back-testing' - I'm hoping there is somewhere where I can download a big fat text file for free.
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DimPrawn replied

14 August 2007, 17:47
Originally posted by DaveB View Post

Nobody is, thats why tracker funds consistently outperform managed funds over the middle to long term. In the short term it's either inside knowledge or luck.
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DaveB replied

14 August 2007, 17:33
Originally posted by Clippy View Post

Perhaps your not very good at it.

Nobody is, thats why tracker funds consistently outperform managed funds over the middle to long term. In the short term it's either inside knowledge or luck.
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Clippy replied

14 August 2007, 16:00
Originally posted by KentPhilip View Post

There is an American broker:

www.tradestation.com

where you can run a program in a language called "EasyLanguage" that trades for you automatically depending upon market values and indicators etc.

I think it might allow external data input, from reading text files.

But I think trading is a mugs game - I've never found a strategy that provides a positive expectancy for returns. All the back-testing I've ever done has returned approximately neutral.

But I'm still searching.

Perhaps your not very good at it.
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KentPhilip replied

14 August 2007, 15:54
There is an American broker:

www.tradestation.com

where you can run a program in a language called "EasyLanguage" that trades for you automatically depending upon market values and indicators etc.

I think it might allow external data input, from reading text files.

But I think trading is a mugs game - I've never found a strategy that provides a positive expectancy for returns. All the back-testing I've ever done has returned approximately neutral.

But I'm still searching.
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DimPrawn replied

14 August 2007, 15:07
Originally posted by yellow View Post

Might be worth looking at Betfair who have an API you could expose:

http://bdp.betfair.com/

Sadly, I'm looking at Financial Spread Betting and not a flutter on the horses.
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yellow replied

8 August 2007, 11:29
Might be worth looking at Betfair who have an API you could expose:

http://bdp.betfair.com/
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ChimpMaster replied

7 August 2007, 09:34
Silly question maybe but why not just set Limit Orders?

Otherwise Barclays have an online platform, but they're not the cheapest broker to use.
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Moscow Mule replied

3 August 2007, 08:30
igindex have a java app that runs on a mobile. So I assume there must be a webservice behind it somewhere.

Either you could ask those nice chaps if they'd expose it for you (oo err missus) or you could get hold of the java app and try to spoof it.
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DimPrawn started a topic Any spread betting sites that have web service access?

3 August 2007, 07:51
Any spread betting sites that have web service access?

Hi,

I have a daft idea to use an automated program to place and close spread bets for me. Therefore I need a company that offers a spread betting service that has an automated interface (ideally Web Service).

Does such a thing exist or is everyone expected to sit at a browser 24/7 making and closing bets?

TIA

DP
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