From: Sky Yin <sky.yin@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T17:37:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Ruby to Invest in the Market?

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I'm looking at Ruby/Finance library (
http://www.caliban.org/ruby/ruby-finance.shtml).  Before using Ruby/Rails,
I've researched several financial quoting web-services. Some are free with
limitations, others are not. For real-time quoting, it may be worth the
money to buy such stuffs, but for delayed or historical quotes, I found
Yahoo! Finance data downloading function is good enough. The csv file forma=
t
is very easy to phrase and import into database. The above mentioned
Ruby/Finance library uses Yahoo!Finance as well.

Hope it help.


On 12/30/05, Charles Ballowe <cballowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You'd need real time data feeds as well as a trading API. When I was
> bored and reading about it a while back, it seemed that in order to
> get access to APIs you had to sign agreements and often be a fairly
> large customer of the exchange to get access. Most of the software
> that is given to private investors and day traders uses one api -
> generally not published - to access the brokerage - often custom to
> the brokerage. The broker then has another API into the market. Some
> of the markets use software based on products from TIBCO or other
> messaging software vendors.
>
> I think the short answer is -- if you want to, good luck getting
> access. Really, I'd be happy if I could find a source for a real time
> - or even delayed stock ticker  with an easy API so I could write code
> and just play with simulating trades.
>
> -Charlie
>
> On 12/29/05, Michael Gorsuch <michael.gorsuch@gmail.com> wrote:
> > An idea popped in my head today.  Has anyone ever used a stock
> > investment service that allows you to access an investment API or
> > something like that?
> >
> > It would nice if I could use Ruby to buy or sell stocks in real time,
> > but I do not have any experience in dealing with this programatically.
> >
> > Anybody?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
>
>

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