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Originally Posted by Linuxser
IB API seems to be free (it would be because the platfrom is terrible).
And in their website they have links to third party tools. Seems they have no problem to interact with another software.
The best broker I know is MAN Financial Inc. Assets by 500M according last CFTC report.
I have talked with them some time ago. The minimum to open an account is 100K.
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Do you have a link on IB API? Many API are proprietary and my goal with ECN programming is to support a common protocol. MAN supports FIX 4.2 it seems, so does Dukascopy. Both groups require a high deposit. I'm looking at MB Trading as my initial ECN target because the deposit requirement is $400 and they seem to have a decent system for execution, plenty of volume. (Anonymous trades, volume hidden, Level 2 very active with 5000 full lots per 10 seconds visible non-news.)
I'm rounding up programmers that are interested. We might be able to have some MT4 compatibility for source files but my initial testing will be working on a rewritten EA implementing the protocol library directly. The protocol library is written in C++, I'm thinking of Python for EA development with a .Net version implemented automatically through IronPython -> IL -> C#.
I'm asking now about FIX versions, MBT might use Fix 4.4 with proprietary extensions. FIX 4.2 seems the most common.
Minimum account size w/MBT: $400.