Make your brokerage work for you.

Goals

• Connect to your preferred broker in Kotlin or Java 💁
• Provide a single interface for accessing multiple brokers’ APIs 🏪
• Accelerate the development of algorithmic trading for the JVM 💰

Use

Before you bring Batil into your own project you’ll want to first retrieve your credentials from your broker and setup Docker. Then add the dependency to your Gradle file.

build.gradle.kts

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    implementation("com.seansoper:batil:^1.0.4")
}

You can then use the full-suite of service endpoints.

val client = EtradeClient(
                "key",
                "secret",
                "username",
                "password",
                EtradeClient.Endpoint.LIVE)

client.accounts.list()?.let {
    it.first().accountIdKey?.let { accountIdKey ->
        val service = client.orders
        val previewRequest = buyEquityLimit("PLTR", 21f, 100)

        service.createPreview(accountIdKey, previewRequest)?.let { previewOrderResponse ->
            service.placeOrder(accountIdKey, previewRequest, previewOrderResponse)?.let { completedOrder ->
                println("Purchased 100 shares of PLTR at $21")
                println(completedOrder)
            }
        }
    }
}

More examples of usage can be found here. Full documentation available here.

Supported Brokers

• E*TRADE

Setup

E*TRADE

1. Retrieve your credentials
2. Setup Docker
3. Verify your credentials
4. Other Commands
5. Troubleshooting

Credentials

You’ll need to request both a sandbox and production API consumer key and secret from the API team.

• Sign into your E*TRADE account and head over to Customer Service ➡ Message Center ➡ Contact Us. From there select the account you want to associate with your API key. For the subject, select API Sandbox Auto and for the topic select Sandbox Key. Expect to hear back within a few hours.
• To access the production API you’ll need to send a signed copy of the Developer Agreement to etradeapi@etrade.com.

Docker

Docker is used to access a Chromium instance that can login to the E*TRADE website to retrieve the necessary OAuth keys.

• Download Docker
• Run the following command to start the container:

docker container run -d -p 9222:9222 zenika/alpine-chrome \
--no-sandbox \
--remote-debugging-address=0.0.0.0 \
--remote-debugging-port=9222 \
--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36" \
about:blank

Verify

• You can clone the project locally and build the demo E*TRADE client (check the build/libs dir).

./gradlew fatJar

• Using the sample provided, add a batil.yaml to the directory where you intend to run the JAR file. Substitute the default values with the correct values.
• Important Ensure you never check your version of batil.yaml into git.
• Verify your account.

java -jar Batil-etrade.jar verify

• By default the app runs in sandbox mode. Add the --production switch to use in production.

java -jar Batil-etrade.jar verify --production

Other Commands

For the full list of available options use the --help switch.

List Accounts

% java -jar Batil-etrade.jar list_accounts --production

Account ID (47246378)
Key: -i07qS52YOXHWSjf8hvZPA
Type: INDIVIDUAL
Name:
Status: ACTIVE
Description: Individual Brokerage

Get Balances

% java -jar Batil-etrade.jar get_balances -i07qS52YOXHWSjf8hvZPA --production

Account ID Key (-i07qS52YOXHWSjf8hvZPA)
Net cash: 3470.154
Cash balance: 0.0
Margin balance: -1743.5747
Cash buying power: 3470.154
Margin buying power: 26233.848
Cash available for investment: 0.0
Cash available for withdrawal: 0.0

Lookup Tickers

% java -jar Batil-etrade.jar lookup pltr tsla clov --production

PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC CL A
Last bid: 24.35
Earnings per share: -0.7414
Total volume: 26106710

TESLA INC COM
Last bid: 818.32
Earnings per share: 1.9124
Total volume: 12247170

CLOVER HEALTH INVESTMENTS CORP COM CL A
Last bid: 8.12
Earnings per share: -0.9715
Total volume: 18767897

Resources

• Documentation
• Sample usage
• Connecting to the E*TRADE API
• Creating a Stock Watchlist in Kotlin
  • Sample stock watchlist app

So What’s a Batil Anyways?

The Batil was a coastal ship in use for hundreds of years up until the 1950s. Serving primarily as a merchant vessel, it was ubiquitous throughout South Asia and the Middle East helping to create a resilient trade network.