API access to account information (such as balance)
Author: redliontrader
Creation Date: 8/27/2008 7:07 AM
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redliontrader

#1
Is there a published, or going to be published interface for accessing real-time balance information for Fidelity customers?

It would be nice to have feedback about current positions and balances.

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Eugene

#2
Please ask Fidelity. We had to remove API docs at all.
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DartboardTrader

#3
A nice feature might be... "make the equities in account xxxx into a data manager collection".
This could be a "Smart List" that updates dynamically for the positions in your live account portfolio.

Or "make a paper portfolio of account xxxx" and then one could potentially write/backtest a portfolio management script using simulated positions/balances of your real account.

If Fidelity does not want to expose the API to wealthscript, these could be options under the Portfolio/Position Sizing settings and a Smart List, as I described above.
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Cone

#4
The existing APIs are exposed (you can't have an interface without exposing it); it's just that their documentation is in review. Nonetheless, accessing account balances isn't there and isn't planned. (But a little bird told me that Paper Trading is coming down the road.)
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xingguochen

#5
Is any way we access the local trade history of a live account or local order list of a live account from a strategy?
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Eugene

#6
I guess that orders and historical trades can be accessed by parsing Orders.xml/TradeHistory.xml in WLP's Data directory respectively.
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xingguochen

#7
Thanks, Eugene.

I found these files. If I write an intraday strategy ( 5min) to monitor my positions in a live account using historical trades that will be updated constantly, does it sound?
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Eugene

#8
Frankly speaking, no idea. This is not documented, and therefore, is unsupported.
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