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Access your TD Ameritrade account through our powerful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to create your own experiences.

Trade the Way You Want

The API allows developers to enable their software to connect to TD Ameritrade for trading, data, and account management.

The API is language-independent, simple, and robust. TD Ameritrade’s API features include:

Trading - Submitting, canceling, modifying orders
Streaming data - Level I, Level II, News, and Actives¹
Historical data - Daily and intraday
Account information - Balances, positions, transactions
Multi-product support - Stocks, options, ETFs, mutual funds
Guides and sample code - Provides easy integration into various programming environments
Comprehensive documentation - Complete description and clear documentation available
¹Real time data is available for free to non-professional clients only. Subscription fees apply to designated professionals for real time market data. For details, see our Professional Rates and Fees listing.

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Market volatility, volume and system availability may delay account access and trade executions.

You are responsible for all trades entered in your TD Ameritrade account, including automated or programmed trades entered via the API. Brokerage services provided by TD Ameritrade, Inc.

TD Ameritrade does not charge platform, maintenance or inactivity fees. Commissions, service fees and exception fees still apply. Please review our commission and brokerage fees for details.

Execution price, speed and liquidity are affected by many factors, including market volatility, size and type of order and available market centers.

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