Tired of stale price data? Here's how you can get live forex price data streaming directly into your computer - to the second - with the TD Ameritrade API in Python.   

0:37 open the docs

1:11 import modules

1:39 create client and authenticate to connect to TD API

1:59 create a queue class to store data

2:21 instantiate queue

2:26 review read_stream() function and message handlers

3:38 pick a forex pair to subscribe to

3:59 subscribe to data stream

4:06 unsubscribing to data stream

4:22 analyzing messages from stream  

In this example, we stream live bid and ask prices for USD/JPY. 

First step is to create a client and authenticate to connect to the API.

Then, pick the currency pair to receive quotes for.

Lastly, connect to the stream and get all the price data you could ever need.  

All the code from the video can be found below 

https://github.com/AdamGetbags/streamingQuotesTDA/blob/main/streamingForexQuotesTDA.py 

TDA API Docs 

https://tda-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ 

TD Ameritrade Forex Pairs 

https://www.tdameritrade.com/investment-products/forex-trading.html

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