[jakearmitage]

I would never trust a service like this, but at the same time, I'm curious on how to setup the opposite of their motto: "compete with professional algorithmic traders and hedge funds. coding required!".

Does Fidelity offer an API of some sort so that I can login with my normal credentials and buy/sell? I'm assuming the strategies being used here, like "Ride the Trend", are basically the same ones available here: https://github.com/enzoampil/fastquant

So, given that the previous statements are true, do I just need some Yahoo! Finance API + FastQuant and then MyBank API to autotrade for myself? What else would be involved?

[ogiberstein]

Hi Jake - some of the traditional finance platforms (like IG) have APIs but not sure how high quality they are. You could probably hack something together if you are good enough with it though - keep in mind you still have to keep adjusting parameters, testing strategies on an ongoing basis etc etc. It's plenty work

[molsongolden]

Some brokerage accounts do come with API access. People have used Interactive Brokers to build trading bots for a long time now and there is also https://alpaca.markets/ which is developer-focused.

[ogiberstein]

We are big fans of Alpaca, it's great! Will probably use it when we expand to stocks as well.