[R-SIG-Finance] Interactive Broker API

[Brian G. Peterson]

Jeff Ryan wrote:
> You can now (with IBrokers and R) pull data from a secondary source
> (of your own API/etc) and use IB to execute.  This is probably the
> smartest route if you require top-notch feeds.  Coding this isn't
> entirely trivial, but is easy enough.  I may (or may not) be making a
> DTN interface available, though the structure of the terms on that
> from DTN make open-source not possible.  Contact me off list if you
> are interested.
>   

Of course, I am not a lawyer, but at least in the United States, courts 
have repeatedly held that API's for a commercial software product cannot 
be held to be "confidential", and that writing your own code to 
interface to those API's is legal.  Thus Samba for connecting to 
windows-style file shares.  As such, an open source connector to the DTN 
API would likely violate no law in the United States.

Regards,

  - Brian

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