IG REST Trading API

Hot off the press is the news that IG (my esteemed employer) has launched its REST Trading API. 

The API provides REST-based and streaming access to a range of popular asset classes (including indices, forex, commodities, binaries and options), and includes functionality to:

• Trade using risk management tools such as stops and limits

• View real-time and historical market prices

• Analyse market instrument and client sentiment information

• Review account balances and trade history

IG already offers a well-established FIX API for corporate clients, but now with its new REST Trading API, IG's technology platform becomes much more easily and widely accessible, allowing for example:

• Corporate partner integration without the start-up costs and complexity of FIX 
• Trading strategy automation
• Retail trading app development

The REST Trading API labs site offers getting started guides, API documentation, a downloadable sample trading app, and an interactive API companion app for trying out the REST APIs.  

The API will only be available in the UK initially, but the wider roll-out is imminent, so be sure to follow the labs site on Facebook or Twitter for updates.  

Related:

·         ComputerWorld: IG opens up web API to allow traders to develop own financial apps

·         Finextra: IG opens up Web API to let traders build own apps

·         Forex Crunch: IG Labs aims to give traders more control of the way they trade

·         ForexMagnates: IG Opens API to Public Development, Launches IG Labs

·         FOW.com: IG rolls out new tech offering for traders

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REST Web Service API Documentation using RESTdoclet

IG Group has open-sourced RESTdoclet, a maven plugin for generating web-based REST API documentation from REST Java web services implemented using the Spring REST framework.

The plugin:

·         supports Spring 3 REST annotations and JavaDoc out of the box,

·         does not require any additional annotations,

·         is easily integrated with Maven continuous build processes, with minimal configuration,

·         supports multiple streams of service development, and

·         publicises documentation in an interactive, Javadoc-like form, to the web, thus providing a source-code agnostic guide to service consumers.

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