Advanced Trading APIs

Create the ultimate trading experience for your clients by connecting your financial application to the same API that the award-winning* TradeStation platform is built on.

Elevate your trading application with TradeStation’s scalable APIs

TradeStation’s APIs are your portal for integrating third-party trading applications, opening access to real-time and historical market data, fast order-execution capabilities, and account and position information. Our powerful trading APIs are premium solutions for lightweight applications, enabling third-party developers to create dynamic web, mobile, or standalone trading programs. TradeStation APIs provide access to TradeStation’s network-based Order Execution (OX) system for routing equities, options, and futures orders. Order Management Systems (OMS), gray box, or other trading applications can send orders to TradeStation’s OX network. Plus, our Customer Experience team is waiting to work closely with you to answer your questions and resolve your issues.

Easy integration with web-enabled code

Connect with any programming languages that are web-enabled, including C#, C++, Python, PHP, and Ruby

One key, multiple assets

Include equities, options, and futures with self-clearing, multi-asset and multi-account functions from a single API key

Direct market access to fuel your ideas

Stream real-time and historical data with no intermediaries, plus additional endpoints for brokerage and execution

Advanced order management

Access complex order types, including bracket, OCO, OSO, and multi-leg options orders, as well as intelligent and direct routing

Connect with our business development team
to link your trading application

For fintechs and developers only. Individual brokerage clients
can access our Trading API for personal use here.

Connect your dynamic app with powerful foundational code

Customize your ultimate trading experience with the unique tools and workflow your application needs. TradeStation APIs support stocks, options, futures, and futures options trading while conveniently providing access to multiple markets within the same interface. With our high-touch customer service ready to help address any concern, the biggest limitation is your imagination.

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Add the power of a broker- dealer to your app with the TradeStation API

Secure authentication

Custody solutions

Reliable brokerage service

Direct market access

High-resolution data

Advanced order execution

Trusted by a variety of industry leaders

Known for its interactive charting capabilities and engaging online trading community, TradingView utilizes TradeStation’s API so its users can trade stocks, ETFs, and futures all within their TradingView account.

By integrating TradeStation’s API, Option Alpha enables traders to automate their trades, allowing its users to backtest, create, and execute stock and options strategies without advanced coding.

TradersPost harnesses the power of TradeStation’s API to provide a platform to create, connect, and subscribe to automated trading strategies across multiple asset classes.

With TradeStation’s API, OptionsPlay aims to simplify options trading by providing easy-to-understand charts, analytics, and an interactive interface that enables users to compare strategies and adjust for price targets, implied volatility, and expiry dates.

ORATS integrates with TradeStation’s API to provide options traders with a centralized platform where they can access their entire portfolio, backtest strategies, launch option scans, and execute trades.

See the TradeStation API in action on our platforms

Leverage the trading API that our award-winning TradeStation Mobile App and our Web Trading platform are built on. With the TradeStation API as your foundation, you get the same order execution, market data, and service that we give our clients.

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