DailyFX Forum - Java Trading API Support

Handling of Controlled and Clearing acount types

riflexo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:40:35 GMT

Hi,

When a CollateralReport message arrives it contains the account type.
What is the exact meaning of these account types:

Code:

IFixDefs.FXCM_ACCT_TYPE_CONTROLLED, and 

IFixDefs.FXCM_ACCT_TYPE_CLEARING

How should such account types be handled provided that we're using LAMM account to control a set of 'ordinary' trading accounts?

We saw some sample code in the JavaTradingStation, but would like to get more information on this.

Best Regards,

Obtaining the margin requirement for a currency pair?

tanatsuk — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:37:50 GMT

Hi, using the java trading api, how can I obtain/calculate the margin requirement for a currency pair in dollars, like the MMR column of the Trading Station? Tatsuo

IGateway relogin

cilufarag — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:14:57 GMT

Using java api, when connection to FXCM is lost, and a 'relogin' is made, it is necessary to register generic message listener again??

Thanks,
Aldo H.

Getting data from recent past

fxmultitrader — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:50:31 GMT

I understand that when I start running my Java trading program, it will collect the data fed to it by the FXCM servers. So if I start my program running on my servers at Oct 29, 2009 12:00PM GMT then my server will collect data starting from that point onward into the future.

My question has to do with data from the recent past. For example, I want any indicators I code up (like a moving average for example) to be calculated using say daily data from the past 20 days, ie 20 trading days prior to Oct 29, 2009. Furthermore, suppose I am a day trader and am using hourly data to trade, and suppose my server goes down for some reason for 2 hours. Without the ability to "fill in" this missing data, my moving average and other indicators will have problems when my server comes back up.

So, how is it possible from the Java API to get any data from the recent past?

Note that any standard trading platform like MT4 has this ability. Just think of any time you open MT4 - it will fill in a set of charts with data from some time in the past until the most recent trade data. If the Java API is going to be useful as a real trading platform, it really should have this ability.

Can one of the FXCM programmers discuss how this problem is addressed in the Java API?

Thanks

Question on demo and live login IDs

fxmultitrader — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:19:56 GMT

I have looked all over this message board and can find no information on how to get access to a demo account for testing, and how to login to an existing live account. Since this entire API depends on having account access, I would have thought that there would be a sticky post that discusses getting started with account info. Since that doesn't seem to be the case, I will ask about how to do this and hope that the moderator makes a sticky post to that effect so that other people starting out don't have to search all over.

My questions are as follows:
1. Is there a demo account that we all use for testing? If so, what is the username and password?
2. What is the server name for the demo account?
3. It looks like the login method also requires a "terminal" variable. What value do we use for that? What exactly is "terminal" supposed to signifiy? Is it supposed to be a unique identifier for our client? Can you please discuss what exactly this is and what exactly the requirements for this are?
4. I have a couple of live accounts on FXCM and one demo account. The 2 live accounts are currently Forex System Selector/Tradency accounts. The demo account is a MT4 demo account. Can I get access to these existing accounts through the Java API? Or must I open a new live account explicitly for use with the Java API? I also have a MT4 demo account? Please explain.
5. What values do i use for server and terminal when I try to login to any live account (either an existing one or any new one I must open to use the java API)?

Thanks

SecondaryClOrdID of PositionReport

cilufarag — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:27:02 GMT

Hi everybody,
Is there a way to update 'SecondaryClOrdID' field of an existing open position??

Thanks a lot,
Aldo H.

Current Gross profit/loss of position

cilufarag — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:24:46 GMT

Hi everybody,
Is there a way to obtain the current Gross profit/loss of a position using this API.

Thanks a lot
Aldo H.

Server Time

cilufarag — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:23:12 GMT

Hi everybody

Is there a simple way to obtain Server Time using the API?

Thanks,
Aldo H.

Build 218 and fxmsg.properties

tanatsuk — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:56:35 GMT

Hi, build 218 seemed to look for file fxmsg.properties during IGateway.login():

Sep 7, 2009 11:10:02 AM com.fxcm.messaging.ConnectionManagerEx
SEVERE:
java.lang.Exception: Could not open stream to file: fxmsg.properties
at com.fxcm.util.Util.loadProperties(Util.java:140)
at com.fxcm.messaging.ConnectionManagerEx.(Co nnectionManagerEx.j
ava:102)
at com.fxcm.internal.transport.FXCMGateway.login(FXCM Gateway.java:255)

so I copied it from directory trading_sdk/fxcm-api to avoid the above message. I am not familiar with the contents of the file, though. Is there anything I should know, or just copy it and forget?

Tatsuo

How to obtain Pip Cost?

cilufarag — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:09:30 GMT

Hi everybody,
Is there a way to obtain currency pair 'pip cost' using this api ??

Thanks a lot
Aldo H.

Upgrade to Java 1.5

FXCM Help — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:22:36 GMT

FXCM is looking to upgrade to Java 1.5

Obtain current equity of account

cilufarag — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:15:20 GMT

Hi everyone,
Does anyone knows which report or function to use to obtain current equity of account?

e.g. for current balance i use 'CollateralReport.getCashOutstanding'

Thanks a lot,
Aldo -.

requestClosedPositions

cmctrader — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:56:15 GMT

about requestClosedPositions method,

The doc says "request for the last 30 closed positions with supplied login id "

but I only can get the closed positions on latest trading day, why?

Request for an entry order?

cilufarag — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:35:41 GMT

Is there a way to request for an specific entry order?
For position i use: RequestForPositions.

Thanks a lot,
Aldo -.

ClientTester login problem

10SigFX — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:54:17 GMT

Hi, I'm just getting started with the Java API and I have a problem logging in to the FXCM servers using my demo account. Here is the error message I keep getting when I try to run the ClientTester program using the required parameters ( MyuserID, Mypassword, DEMO, host) like what is used in the example Test batch file. I get the same error message when I try to run the test batch files too. Thanks, Roy

client: start logging in
com.fxcm.GenericException: ConectionManager.getHostDescriptor: Hosts Descriptor "DEMO" is not found.
at com.fxcm.messaging.util.HostReader.read(HostReader .java:95)
at com.fxcm.messaging.util.UniversalUserSession.loadS tationDescriptor(UniversalUserSession.java:413)
at com.fxcm.internal.transport.FXCMGateway.login(FXCM Gateway.java:269)
at ClientTester.main(ClientTester.java:196)

Process completed.