Using the Exchanges' APIs ?

[kaiser11]

Traders

1. are you actually using the APIs provided by the BTC Based exchanges?
-Or-
Are you using mostly the regular web interface ?


2. Those who are using the API - are you using for : making trading decisions / submitting orders / both ?


3.  are these specific generic tools that connect to the APIs or each trader has to build his/her own tools ?



I'm asking in order to understand the level of importance attributed to the APIs (Important vs. "nice to have" )

[CreationLayer]

Very important every decent charting site uses an API, bitcoinwisdom.com cryptowat.ch tradingview for instance. So even if you don't directly query the api, you need it to functionally evaluate price as internal charts on exchanges are pretty bad.

As far as "people" that actually use APIs you're looking mostly at bots or people gathering data for backtesting purposes. There are some things like QT-Trader, cryptrader, coinigy which by adding your api keys you can view and submit orders.

tl;dr I wouldn't run an exchange without an API.

[kaiser11]

Very important every decent charting site uses an API, bitcoinwisdom.com cryptowat.ch tradingview for instance. So even if you don't directly query the api, you need it to functionally evaluate price as internal charts on exchanges are pretty bad.

As far as "people" that actually use APIs you're looking mostly at bots or people gathering data for backtesting purposes. There are some things like QT-Trader, cryptrader, coinigy which by adding your api keys you can view and submit orders.

tl;dr I wouldn't run an exchange without an API.

Thanks, for the input CreationLayer.  interesting stuff

[Nrcewker]

hi, look this powerful api with LakeBTC exchange, https://lakebtc.com/s/api?locale=en include orderbook, trade histroy, and trading api

and there are many available sample code can be used such as Python, PHP, Ruby etc... at present, I trading with the api without any problems, okay, little trouble, its sometime timeout but short-lived

[kaiser11]

hi, look this powerful api with LakeBTC exchange, https://lakebtc.com/s/api?locale=en include orderbook, trade histroy, and trading api

and there are many available sample code can be used such as Python, PHP, Ruby etc... at present, I trading with the api without any problems, okay, little trouble, its sometime timeout but short-lived

Thanks Nrcewker !

I would appreciate if you  could answer a few questions in a 1.5 minute survey, for a select group of experienced trades (1.5 minute survey) - the survey is about investment preferences:
https://eSurv.org?u=bitcoin_investor_survey

The aggregated (and, of course, anonymous) results will be posted in the Trading forum

[majeis]

If you're running any kind of automation like your own charting or bots, then API is always essential, otherwise if you're doing anything manual then the web interface is always fine.

It really depends on the application and your particular trading strategy on whatever pair you're trading against.