API Trading with Lime

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API trading, or Application Programming Interface trading, refers to using a software interface to interact with financial markets and execute trades automatically. Instead of manually placing trades through a trading platform's interface, traders can programmatically connect to a broker or exchange's systems to send buy and sell orders, retrieve market data, and/or manage accounts. 

Lime offers powerful API trading solutions for its users: the REST API for clients using Lime Trader and the FIX API for Lime Direct users. The REST API provides a simple and flexible interface for automated trading and integration with Lime’s trading platform, allowing users to execute trades, retrieve market data, and manage accounts programmatically. For more advanced traders, the FIX API offers a high-performance, industry-standard protocol, enabling faster execution and more robust trading strategies. Both options provide seamless integration, making Lime a great choice for traders looking to automate and optimize their trading workflows. 

When API Trading Might Be Right for You: 

•	If you want to automate and optimize your strategies. 

•	If you have technical knowledge or are willing to learn to code. 

•	If you’re looking for speed, efficiency, and real-time execution in a fast-paced market. 

•	If you're interested in back testing and optimizing trading strategies. 

•	If you have the capital to handle the risks and costs involved. 

Learn more about API Trading with Lime on our website and 

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Automate your trading, build your own apps, or connect to existing front ends.

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For traders looking to code in a native programming language or directly to FIX protocol and execute directed (DMA) or Lime Smart Order Router (LSR) orders

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In the world of high frequency trading, colocation can help give you a competitive edge

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Simple, Powerful Web Trading Application.
Go easy or go deep. We built our flagship platform for fast, reliable access to US equity and option trading. Easy to use with plenty of depth.

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Your device, on the go. Monitor your activity, place trades, stay updated with synced watch lists. Available on Android and iOS.

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Community-driven platform with lots of customized vidgets

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Powered by Lime Execution’s low latency technology, you unlock institutional-grade market connectivity for high frequency trading

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CQG provides direct access to more than 40 exchanges all over the world and a wide range of instruments traded on these  exchanges — futures, options and their combinations

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Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors as the special risks inherent to options trading may expose investors to potentially rapid and substantial losses. Please review the <a
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 >Options Clearing Corporation Options Disclosure Document</a
 > for the risks associated with trading options. Hedging and protective strategies generally involve additional costs and do not assure a profit or guarantee against loss.
With long options, investors may lose 100% of funds invested. Covered calls provide income,
downside protection only to the extent of the premium received, and limit upside potential to the strike price plus
premium received. Multi-leg option orders are not a standard option trade. There is no national best bid or offer for
multi-leg orders. Multi-leg trades are executed on the exchanges at the discretion of specialists or market makers, who
cannot be held to a net price on a multi-leg order. Therefore, you may not receive the national best bid or offer on
each individual leg of an order. Multi-leg orders are executed as a single trade on the same exchange. Legs cannot be
executed separately on different exchanges to get the national best bid or offer for each leg. Each individual leg of a
multi-leg order can be subject to early exercise risk, possibly taking away the protection that the multi-leg position
may provide. Partial or full assignment on a leg may originate a margin call or losses greater than you anticipated when
you entered into the position. When a multi-leg order is canceled or filled, additional reporting may be required by the
specialist or market maker. Reporting fills and cancels may cause delays and create risks, especially in fast moving
markets. Other risks might be associated with multi-leg options trading.