Hello,
I'm new to forex trading via api and have quite a hard time to get some things sane for me. I did some research on the questions I'm asking now but I guess these questions should be just simple to answer for you guys.
I realized that I (ofc) need an account to use FC API. So my first approach was to create a demo account on FXCM. Then I tried to use this account with MetaTrader 4 as a test on the server "FXCM-EURDemo01". This didn't work. So I created a new account within Metatrader for this server (EURDemo01).
Metatrader then started to work. When I try to login via ForexConnect API I get an error. I tried the username/password combination I got via MetaTrader and tried various combinations for the url (mostlay something with Server mt4d02.fxcorporate.com, which I found for EURDemo01) and also different strings for the connection parameter.
Anything (except of "Connecting" and "Disconnecting") I get back is a error message: "ORA-499: Unable to obtain station descriptor. HTTP send request failed object=... errorCode=12029".
Well, I guess it's no programming mistake. I think I need a little help understanding which server(s) or other parameters I need to use, etc.
What I want to achieve: I (at this moment) just want to connect somewhere and get the current EUR/USD course and plot this live to a window. Maybe there are some anonymous accounts/servers which I can use and maybe I even don't need FXCM.
Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for my bad english and this noob question(s).