Optimus Flow - API for add-ons

[emojitrading]

Is there an API available to allow additional indicators, plug-ins, etc., to be developed? If so, it would be good to know:

• how to access price data per price bar (and how the bars are indexed)
• how to access volume data for each price per price bar (or how to access tick data to rebuild this)
• how to draw objects (and manage them: modify and delete them) on charts

[Mod-JakeM]

Hello @emojitrading,

Thanks for your question and welcome to the community forum!

To answer your question, once Optimus Flow has exited beta stage and is available to all users, the platform will provide the possibility to develop custom indicators and strategies. Once our help guide for the platform has been fully updated, we will provide you with exact instructions on how to access and implement code through our custom API.

As mentioned in a similar post regarding custom code integration:

@Mod-JakeM

General Information

Optimus Flow trading platform provides a wide set of professional features for manual trading, but you can use it for algorithmic trading also. With Optimus Flow Algo solutions you can simply create standard trading scripts such as indicators and strategies, as well as additional platform extensions: own connectors with brokers, plugins, Custom columns, etc. What is different with Optimus Flow, from others trading platforms - you don’t need to study some proprietary language or development environment. You will use only standard, well known instruments, that used by developers all over the world.

There are three main key points in our vision of algorithmic scripts development:

• C# programming language
• Integration with major Development Environments: Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Atom, etc.
• Open and transparent API

C# programming language

C# is simple, powerful, flexible and it is one the most popular programming languages in The World. It means large community and great support, many ready-to-use components and a lot of tutorials, video lessons in any languages and for any level of development skills - from starter to professional. In additional, most of modern trading platform support coding in C#. It became a kind of standard in trading industry, so you can be sure - you will always be able to use your knowledges later and not waste your time studying it.

Integration with major Development Environments

We are planning to provide our users the possibility to use all well known products via special extensions or plugins. At the moment we have an integration between Optimus Flow trading terminal and Visual Studio - just in a few click you can create your indicator and see it directly on chart panel. All professional features from Visual Studio are available for you out of the box: a code editor with IntelliSense, advanced debugger, supporting for source control systems and many others. You can use special Community version of Visual Studio which is free for private usage.

Open and transparent API

We provide absolutely full access to all functionality of our trading core layer for developers. Moreover, we are developing Optimus Flow using the same API, which means you always will have up-to-date and powerful set of features, which allows you to create script any level script, from trivial indicators to complex strategies or trading/analytics panels.

If your custom code utilizes C# as it’s coding language and you are still interested in integrating your custom indicators, we can walk you through the process of installing Visual Studio and the Optimus Flow Algo Extension in order to integrate your indicators once the API is fully available!

Let us know if you have questions regarding any of the information mentioned above. Once our API is available, we will update this thread with exact instructions and a fully detailed help guide on how to proceed!

Thanks for your inquiry,
Jake
Optimus Futures Support