UI automation of NOW or NEST

Hi,
My understanding is that there is quite a bit of cost involved in getting the APIs to work. So has anyone tried UI automation using QTP or AutoIT. I am talking about Amibroker---->QTP/AutoIT---->NOW/NEST.

Pls share your opinion. If there is a working API then pls share it. I am not asking for strategy.

If it's just one scrip like Nifty future then is UI automation viable?

AHK + NOW works great, autoit should do as well. You have to find workarounds sometimes but overall its good enough for me.

With this, you dont depend on brokrers/software. If you code it yourself, you have control. As long as GUI does something reliably, you can automate it. So, i say go for it.

Example is Backfill tool by josh. You can do ordering stuff as well, or even real time data in theory.

Tracer, I am trying with AutoIT but it does not recognize the script (NIFTY15OCTFUT) in Market Watch in NOW. Can you help me with your insight. I can use Quick Test Professional but it is quite heavy application.

I tried to automation for placing order with qtp and got success on sharekhan's website but could not automate trade tiger

In AHK, there didnt seem to be a simple way to select a row. So i just use Down and HOME keys and compare scrip of current row to find. Dunno about autoit. Better use what you are comfortable with or learn AHK/Autoit. You can look at source of josh1 backfill tool - RTD to see what it does ( Autoit ).

How do you compare. Can it read the name of the script from NOW Market Watch?

i wont handhold, but just for this case - Look at Control get reference here which has section on how to get data from ListView. I just get the Trading symbol cell data for the selected row.

The reference is very good, and you can start by doing some tutorials.

Friends,

Please let me know the steps to automate trading from Nest trader using QTP/AutoIT.

Thanks,
Mullangi