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trdrs is a trading platform and the engine behind it. Prop firms use its API to run evaluations, brokerages use it to put their accounts in front of traders, developers use it to build trading interfaces of their own on Connect, and traders use it for programmatic trading. This page shows what you can build and where to start.

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Choose what to build

Run evaluations

Issue evaluation accounts on the paper book, set the rules each one is judged by, and advance the traders who pass.

Offer your brokerage accounts

Give traders who already hold accounts at your provider the trdrs platform as their front end.

Trade programmatically

Read market data, place orders and follow your own accounts through the API.

Build on Connect

Build your own trading interface: your traders connect their accounts in hosted Connect on your website, and your backend routes their orders.

Bring a market to trdrs

Write a public provider against the provider contract, and prove it with provider conformance.

Build your own front end

Build your own trading screens on the same API and chart the trdrs platform uses.
A venue’s traders don’t use the API at all. They sign in to trdrs and get a finished trading platform, and What your traders get shows what’s in it.

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Start here

Start with Choose your quickstart. It matches your job to the right key and walkthrough, whether you’re trading your own accounts, building on Connect or setting up a venue. Each walkthrough runs in the sandbox, which is free and needs no payment setup.

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Find your way around

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Choose your key

Three keys cover almost every integration.
  • Use a Venue key when your server runs a venue: its configuration, the accounts it issues and its webhooks.
  • Use a Connect API key when your server runs a Connect app: Connect links, and your traders’ accounts and orders.
  • Use a Trading API key for programmatic trading on the accounts of the person who owns the key.
Create Venue keys on the API keys page of the installed back office, and Trading API keys in your trdrs profile’s API access. Create Connect API keys in the Connect dashboard, where you manage your app. Keep every key on your server. Don’t put a key in browser code, a mobile app or a public repository. Keys and authentication covers the scopes and the fourth key, the pre-registration key, which you need only to pre-register traders for Connect in the trdrs trading app. The back office is an optional tool for running a venue by hand. It calls the same operations your backend does, so you can use it, your own backend, or both.

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Learn the words

Core concepts explains the handful of words these docs use: venue, provider, tile, group, the paper book, venue rules and Connect. Read it once before you build. A key doesn’t make a new market available on its own. A market needs a provider, and a new provider has to pass conformance before a venue can plug it in.