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Re: Yahoo Stock Quotes in Go

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>Interactive Brokers has a very robust API IB's API is anything but robust. It is inconsistent, poorly documented, and IB have a history of changing it without notice. It also requires all communication runs through their client side Java GUI app, which is also prone to a variety of problems. That said, IB are a very good low cost broker with amazing product breadth. But I would suggest caution if using their data AP…

You can always use FIX if you don't like their API, no?

...and now you have two problems

Re: Yahoo Stock Quotes in Go

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Interactive Brokers has a very robust API IB's API is anything but robust. It is inconsistent, poorly documented, and IB have a history of changing it without notice. It also requires all communication runs through their client side Java GUI app, which is also prone to a variety of problems. That said, IB are a very good low cost broker with amazing product breadth. But I would suggest caution if using their data AP…

You can always use FIX if you don't like their API, no?

FIX is for execution, market data is still via their API and client software.
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