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Hello community,
I just signed up for QuantNet as I want to program my first algorithm. I'm still an economics Bachelor student at a German university, but I learned how to program in Java for 4 years. However, I have absolutely no clue how to connect my code with an online broker (that's basically where I want to start - setting up the connection). I would like to program in Java and maybe switch later to C++, but for now I just want to get the ball rolling. I read Rishi Narang's "Inside the Black Box" and had some fine ideas that I'd like to try out.
Can anyone offer me some insights on the connection between the Java code on my computer to my online brokerage account? And secondly, where do you get your data from? I want to start off trading US equities. I think I read that many use Yahoo Finance, but I am not sure how to extract the information into my program.
A big thanks to everybody for taking the time. We all started at some point
Toby
I just signed up for QuantNet as I want to program my first algorithm. I'm still an economics Bachelor student at a German university, but I learned how to program in Java for 4 years. However, I have absolutely no clue how to connect my code with an online broker (that's basically where I want to start - setting up the connection). I would like to program in Java and maybe switch later to C++, but for now I just want to get the ball rolling. I read Rishi Narang's "Inside the Black Box" and had some fine ideas that I'd like to try out.
Can anyone offer me some insights on the connection between the Java code on my computer to my online brokerage account? And secondly, where do you get your data from? I want to start off trading US equities. I think I read that many use Yahoo Finance, but I am not sure how to extract the information into my program.
A big thanks to everybody for taking the time. We all started at some point

Toby