Programmatic trading

Use this path for scripts, bots and a trading interface for your own accounts. You do not need a venue, a group or the back-office tool.

1. Get a Trading API key

Open sandbox API access, sign in and create a Trading API key. Save the secret on your backend when it is shown. Key management stays in your TRDRS profile; a Trading API key cannot create other keys or manage a venue.

2. Prove an authenticated read

export TRDRS_API_BASE_URL=https://sandbox.trdrs.co
# Supply TRDRS_TRADING_API_KEY through your server-side secret environment.
curl --fail-with-body "$TRDRS_API_BASE_URL/api/instruments" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TRDRS_TRADING_API_KEY"

Expect HTTP 200 with an instruments array. This proves authenticated access without creating an account or placing a trade.

3. Read your accounts

curl --fail-with-body "$TRDRS_API_BASE_URL/api/account/list" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TRDRS_TRADING_API_KEY"

Only accounts your identity can access are returned. A new user may have no connected account. Use the sandbox trading app to open your own Demo or complete a supported provider’s test login. This is separate from configuring a venue. Use the returned account identity and its capabilities when building account requests. An API key is not permission to trade another person’s account.

4. Add the behavior you need

Find symbols, read history and stream market data.
Place a test order on a dedicated sandbox account, then track fills and P&L. Order examples perform writes; do not run them against an account you need to preserve.
Build a front end with credentials kept on its backend.

Read Sandbox before choosing a provider. Moving to production requires a separate production key and explicit production configuration; sandbox credentials and balances do not transfer.

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Front end

Trading

Market data

1. Get a Trading API key

2. Prove an authenticated read

3. Read your accounts

4. Add the behavior you need

​1. Get a Trading API key

​2. Prove an authenticated read

​3. Read your accounts

​4. Add the behavior you need

1. Get a Trading API key

2. Prove an authenticated read

3. Read your accounts

4. Add the behavior you need