From: Michael Gorsuch <michael.gorsuch@...>
Date: 2005-12-31T00:03:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Ruby to Invest in the Market?

Thanks to everyone for the replies.  I'll have to marinate on this for
a little while.

On 12/30/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>