vernadici / igtrade

IG Trade

IG trade is a small trading software. You can use it to send your buy/sell signals without the need of IG market heavy website. Its light interface will enable you to scalp effectively.

Installation under linux or Mac OS X

Make sure you have python 2 installed. You will need also the following packages

• requests
• wxpython

###Install requests:

$ pip install requests

###Install wxPython:

Download wxPython on official website : http://wxpython.org/download.php#sources

###Install IG-Trade Download the archive and unzip it:

$ wget https://github.com/maroxe/igtrade/archive/master.zip
$ unzip master.zip 
$ cd igtrade-master/

###Troubleshoot If you have some problem during installation, you can read tutorials (in french) at http://www.andlil.com/api/L3-Scalping/Tutoriel/

Run it

Run the program

$ python2 main.py

Enter your user, password and API Key. If you don't have an API Key yet, you can get one from http://labs.ig.com/sample-apps/api-companion/

Enjoy

Installation under MacOSX

Downloads & install Python 2.7.9 from https://www.python.org/downloads/

$ easy_install requests
$ easy_install wxpython

Run the program

$ python2 main.py

Enter your user, password and API Key. If you don't have an API Key yet, you can get one from http://labs.ig.com/sample-apps/api-companion/

Enjoy

Installation under Windows

Downloads & install Python 2.7.9 from https://www.python.org/downloads/ Downloads & install wxPython from http://wiki.wxpython.org/How%20to%20install%20wxPython

$ cd C:\Python27\Scripts
$ pip install requests
$ easy_install wxpython

Run the program by double clicking on main.cmd

Enter your user, password and API Key. If you don't have an API Key yet, you can get one from http://labs.ig.com/sample-apps/api-companion/

Enjoy

Contribution

If you want to contribute you must read CONTRIBUTE.md.