Would Oanda shutdown my profitable algorithm?

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Hello all. I’ve been trading for about two months. I sucked at the emotional side of it but being a software engineer by background, I really saw a opportunity to to automate some of my trading to remove that weakness from the equation.

I’ve developed a simple trading system that has proven to be nicely profitable, backtested for the past 12 months. I’ve just started running it against live data in a demo account and so far, so good.

Since my code is written in java, I need a ‘broker’ with some kind of API - i.e. not a metatrader EA.

Question… if my account is consistently profitable, will Oanda shut my account down? Some of my trades do lose and I take an average of 200 trades a month using my system. It seems like they would be all about that commission but I do know they aren’t an ECN and I really don’t know how far/long they’ll let me be profitable before they slow down my orders and increase my spreads.

Thanks. Sorry if I’m rehashing a previously answered question.

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Any particular reason to choose Oanda and not a regulated STP broker instead?

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My algorithm is written in Java - I can’t find an STP broker that takes US accounts and that has a free api that works with java - be it RESTful or otherwise.

I want to get started slowly - I could bite the bullet and write an MT4 expert advsior but I’d have to come up the learning curve for MT4 programming. I’d rather prove my system works before I do that. Maybe I can figure out how to have my java program send my MT4 a trade signal.