Connect Trade is a unified broker connectivity API for fintech platforms. One integration for real-time trading, market data, and account connectivity across equities, options, futures and crypto. Seamless onboarding. Fast integration. Infrastructure for modern finance platforms.
Connect Trade is trusted by Alpaca, Bank of America, Benzinga, Capital One, Charles Schwab, Chase, Citi, Fidelity, Interactive Brokers, Lightspeed, PNC, Public, Sterling Trading Tech, Stocktwits, Tastytrade, TD Bank, TradeStation, Tradier, TradeZero, U.S. Bank, Webull, and Wells Fargo.
Ship Faster: Integrate once and go live with over 20 brokers in days, not months. Connect Trade handles broker relationships, compliance, and infrastructure.
Expand Your Reach: Your end-users can connect their existing accounts in just a few steps with simple click-through authentication. No API keys, no manual setup, and no friction.
Scale With Confidence: A low-latency API built for modern finance platforms. Connect Trade scales to millions of traders without adding engineering overhead.
Drive User Retention: Platforms with connected brokerage accounts see 4x greater user retention. Connect Trade makes connectivity simple to implement and seamless for users.
Trade with AI: The Connect Trade MCP server and OpenAPI specification give AI platforms and coding tools direct access to the full broker network. Build AI agents that trade, not just read.
| Capability | Connect Trade | Competing Solutions |
|---|---|---|
| Broker connections | All connections are broker-approved and built on official sanctioned APIs | Connections include screen-scraped and reverse-engineered APIs that can be terminated without notice |
| Easy authentication | OAuth across all broker connections allows simple click-through end user authentication | Authentication varies by broker. Some connections require users to generate their own API keys or configure webhooks |
| Real-time streaming | WebSocket streaming updates for orders, positions and account balances across all brokers | Polling only, no WebSocket support |
| Market data streaming | Real-time brokerage-sourced market data delivered through the same normalized API used for trading | No market data streaming API |
| Order updates | Real-time order updates via WebSocket | Poll for order status every 10 seconds maximum |
| Data retrieval | Single REST call returns data instantly across all plans | Some plans require a 3-step async process: refresh request, wait for webhook, then retrieve |
| API normalization | Fully normalized across all brokers with consistent data format regardless of broker | Pass-through responses with data format varying by broker |
| Broker rate-limit management | Managed server-side by Connect Trade across all brokers | Raw broker rate-limits exposed directly to your platform for you to manage |
| API responses | Lean, normalized responses | Bloated broker-specific payloads |
| Asset class coverage | Equities, single-leg options, multi-leg options, and futures | Equities and single-leg options only |
| AI coding tool compatibility | OpenAPI specification works directly with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor to generate working integration code automatically | No native AI coding tool compatibility |
Level2 integrated with Webull through the Connect Trade API to let users test and deploy systematic trading strategies without writing a single line of code.
Lightspeed Connect needed connectivity to Interactive Brokers for equities, options, and futures trading. Connect Trade provided the infrastructure layer to make it possible.
Portfolio analytics platforms connect to Fidelity and Schwab through the Connect Trade API to access normalized account balances, positions, and portfolio data.
Tradetron Tech used the Connect Trade API to connect their Options Wizard strategy builder to TradeZero for single and multi-leg options trading.
Ontology Trading Systems integrated with TradeStation through the Connect Trade API to unify real-time market data and trading.
“Connect Trade provides the infrastructure for all of our broker connectivity, allowing our team to stay laser focused on building great products.”
Andrew Grevett, CEO, Level2
“Our users increasingly want access to third party tools. Connect Trade makes it easy to expand our platform integrations and grow our customer base without pulling our tech team away from our core product.”
Tom Gibb, President, Lightspeed