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Every broker TradeLabs supports, what each one can trade, and how it signs in, so you can pick the right account for your strategy.

TradeLabs connects to 18 brokers. Which one you use depends on what you want to trade: options and spreads run on a few full-featured brokers, stocks on more, futures and crypto and memecoins and prediction markets each on one, and reverse split arbitrage fans out across a group of smaller brokers.

What each broker trades

The Stocks column is about automated Stocks strategies. A broker marked Manual still takes hand-placed stock orders from the Trade page — it just cannot be the target of a Stocks strategy.

BrokerStocksOptions / SpreadsFuturesCryptoRSAHow it signs in
Interactive BrokersYesYesYesNoNoLocal TWS / Gateway
TradierYesYesNoNoNoAPI token
Charles SchwabYesOptions onlyNoNoNoSchwab Developer app
RobinhoodYesYesNoNoYesCredentials + 2FA
DAS TraderYesNoNoNoNoLocal software
Robinhood CryptoNoNoNoYesNoAPI key
WebullManualNoNoNoYesAPI key
FidelityManualNoNoNoYesCredentials + 2FA
ChaseManualNoNoNoYesCredentials + 2FA
SoFiManualNoNoNoYesCredentials + 2FA
WellstradeManualNoNoNoYesCredentials + 2FA
PublicManualNoNoNoYesCredentials + 2FA
FennelManualNoNoNoYesEmailed code
FirstradeManualNoNoNoYesCredentials + PIN
BBAEManualNoNoNoYesCredentials + captcha
DSPACManualNoNoNoYesCredentials + captcha
SolanaNoNoNoMemecoinsNoWallet key
PolymarketNoNoNoPredictionNoWallet key
Note

Robinhood appears twice on purpose. Robinhood (stocks) trades stocks and options directly and also works as an RSA target. Robinhood Crypto is a separate connection with its own API keys, for crypto only.

How they group

  • Direct-API brokers connect with a key, token, or your own developer app and trade the fastest: Tradier, Charles Schwab, Robinhood Crypto, and Webull.
  • Local-software brokers talk to a program running on your own machine: Interactive Brokers (TWS or Gateway) and DAS Trader.
  • Browser and RSA brokers sign in with your credentials and a verification step, and most of them fan out across many accounts for reverse split arbitrage: Fidelity, Chase, SoFi, Wellstrade, Public, Fennel, Firstrade, BBAE, DSPAC, and Robinhood.
  • Wallet brokers connect with a private key: Solana for memecoins, Polymarket for prediction markets.

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