Broker API
FXCM API: questions and answers
6 questions about the FXCM API, each answered from the FXCM record on this site and nothing else.
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FXCM API questions
Does FXCM have an API?
Yes. This register records FXCM as having its own API (FIX, Java API and ForexConnect), with availability marked as active. ForexConnect and Java SDKs for Trading Station accounts; FXCM's REST API is no longer listed and we found no formal retirement notice.
API trading, FXCMchecked
Does FXCM have a demo or paper trading API?
Yes: ForexConnect connects to demo and real Trading Station accounts.
GitHub fxcm/ForexConnectAPIchecked
The FXCM record's full wording. The same question for every record.
What are FXCM's API rate limits?
Not published. No REST API is listed, so there is nothing to publish limits for.
FXCM Socket REST API specchecked
FXCM API rate limits, as the record words them. The same question for every record.
How do I authenticate with the FXCM API?
FIX, the Java API and ForexConnect only. No REST API is listed on FXCM's current API pages, so the legacy REST token flow this site described is recorded as no longer listed rather than retired.
FXCM Socket REST API specchecked
The FXCM record's full wording. The same question for every record.
Does FXCM support streaming or WebSocket prices?
ForexConnect pushes live prices; the retired legacy REST API streamed over Socket.IO.
FXCM Socket REST API specchecked
The FXCM record's full wording. The same question for every record.
Is there an official Python library for FXCM?
The FXCM record marks 2 Python libraries as official: ForexConnectAPI and forexconnect. It also lists as community, not official: fxcmpy. No dated source is recorded for ForexConnectAPI.
forexconnectchecked
Every library in the FXCM record. The same question for every record.
Not recorded here
The FXCM record cannot answer these questions yet, so they are not asked above. That is a gap in this dataset. It says nothing either way about FXCM.
- Does FXCM have an MCP server? Not recorded here
- What does the most referenced FXCM error mean? Not recorded here
Where to go next
- The FXCM API record in full: every field with its source
- Answers for every broker and platform API
- Which retail brokers have a public trading API?
- Which broker APIs have a demo environment?
- What are the rate limits of each broker API?
- How does each broker API authenticate?
- Which broker APIs stream prices?
- Which broker APIs have an official Python library?
- Which broker APIs have an MCP server?
- What does each API's most referenced error mean?
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