From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-30T22:50:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Ruby to Invest in the Market?

On Dec 29, 2005, at 7:35 PM, Michael Gorsuch 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?

My investment club uses E*Trade for our purchases.  We are a "buy and  
hold" strategy group, so there's not enough action to warrant doing  
it through Ruby.

I have wondered if E*Trade exposes an API for reading account  
information though.  That would be neat for our valuation reports.  I  
could always screen scrape of course, but a web service would be much  
better.  Just haven't had the time to look into it yet...

James Edward Gray II