Best trading platform for Automated trading

Hi All,
I was wondering which is the best trading platform to automate the trade. I am using ICICI direct and find it is hard to automate...
Is there any platform which exposes api for automation. Say I should be able to place trades and square off depending on the signals generated by any TA software (Eg: Amibroker).
Thanks much in advance...

I don't think any of the indian brokers expose APIs. IB does but the brokerage and minimum limits seem to be very high. Alternatively you can write a FIX plugin and connect to any brokerage that provides ODIN. You can use QuickFix for grunt work.

Thanks a bunch...I'll look in this direction and see if anything can be done...

Does ODIN use FIX protocol? If yes, do all ODIN clients use it? Meaning does ODIN diet also use FIX protocol.

Nitin

The servers do so the clients have to. I think all you need is transaction server, login details (Mind that I dint try it myself but thats how it works in general).

can anyone help me with a step by step guide ? I do ot have programming knowledge.

can you help terminator_123 ??

What are u planning to do ?

I am trying to automate my trades with my trading software.

Since you are not familiar with programming, the simplest way is to use sendkeys function from vb macros. Google for sendkeys and trade automation. I'm assuming you have got an exe based trading terminal. I don't think u can automate browser based terminal this way. The things discussed at the start of the thread would require quite a bit of coding.