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		danielvaughn on Nov 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All the data can be yours: reverse engineering API... The purpose of our work wasn’t scraping - we were building a unified UI where our users could trade with any vendor of their choosing. Kinda like Plaid but specifically for retail stock trading. So the goal was to implement their trading API.

MarcelOlsz on Nov 13, 2024 [–]

You can just.. do that? I think I discovered why all my ideas suck.

danielvaughn on Nov 13, 2024 | [–]

Yep. Though it’s really hard. To capture the US market (E*Trade, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, Scottrade, Schwab, Interactive Brokers, Robinhood) it took me and another engineer almost 2 years. It’s non-trivial.

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