Getting started

I’m following instructions from “AutoTrade API Access Granted” email but it’s not working. I first went to the random signals Test System here:

http://www.collective2.com/cgi-perl/system1234



Then I clicked AutoTrade and selected “AutoTrade Software Development” and then "AutoTrade Test Client (Gen 1)"



Then in Firefox I entered http://autotrade.collective2.com:7878/?cmd=login&e=email&p=password&protoversion=8.2&client=TESTCLIENT&host=HP1&build=1.0



With my correct C2 email and password of course.



Firefox responded: "Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at autotrade.collecte2.com:7878



From a command shell, I also tried pinging http://autotrade.collective2.com and http://autotrade.collective2.com:7878 but got "request could not find host"



What am I doing wrong?

Hi, Greg:



The AutoTrade servers are down on Saturday, but will return on Sunday afternoon. Sorry this is not documented clearly.



Matthew

Matthew,

I have it working now, thanks.

Here’s some more undocumented stuff you might want to add:

1. Additional fields returned by cmd=latestsigs in the signal packet:

String wasParkedUntilWhen;

String wasParkedUntilHumanTime;

String conditionaUponPermId;

2.Can you add example data between tags <ocachanges></ocachanges>

3. Same request between tags <fillinforeceived></fillinforeceived>

4. Why is <completedtrades> data organized differently than others?

5. How to turn off emails sent by test system?

6. You had previously told me that must have dedicated IB account for C2 systems. I see no reason can’t be differentiated programmatically. Is that just a Trader68/TradeBullet requirement?

Thanks,

Greg