Pick paper or live
Practice with simulated fills first, or connect a funded account and trade with real money.
Equities and options through Schwab's OAuth Trader API.
The API behind one of the largest US brokerages, covering equities, ETFs, and single- and multi-leg options.
Authorize with your Charles Schwab login — you'll sign in on Charles Schwab's own site
Practice with simulated fills first, or connect a funded account and trade with real money.
Sign in the way you normally would — no keys or secrets to copy in.
Point any strategy at this connection and every signal it receives routes straight to your account.
Schwab's OAuth tokens must be manually reauthorized roughly every 7 days — there's no long-lived refresh yet. The API reaches live accounts only; its sandbox is synthetic test data, not a real paper account. Futures, forex and crypto aren't available through this connection.