Description: The LYNX Trading API is a simple yet powerful interface through which LYNX clients can automate their trading strategies, request market data and monitor your account balance and portfolio in real time.
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undefined LYNX API API Architecture Initial Setup Connectivity Financial Instruments Basic Contracts Spreads Orders Order Management Streaming Market Data Top Market Data (Level I) Requesting Watchlist Data Receiving Watchlist Data Cancelling Streaming Data Component Exchanges Market Data Types Tick Types Tick-by-Tick Data Market Depth (Level II) Realtime Bars Historical Market Data Limitations Bar Data Time and Sales Data Earliest Data Point Account & Portfolio Data Options Fundamental Data Error Handling
Our LYNX Trading API components are aimed at experienced professional developers willing to enhance the current TWS functionality. Regrettably, LYNX cannot offer any programming consulting. Before contacting our API support, please always refer to our available documentation and sample applications.
This guide reflects the very latest version of the LYNX Trading API - 9.72 and higher - and constantly references the Java and Python Testbed sample projects to demonstrate the LYNX Trading API functionality. All code snippets are extracted from these projects and we suggest all those users new to the LYNX Trading API to get familiar with them in order to quickly understand the fundamentals of our programming interface. The Testbed sample projects can be found within the samples folder of the LYNX Trading A