# Ally Invest

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ally-invest/  
**Website:** https://www.ally.com/invest/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

Ally Invest is an online brokerage platform offering commission-free self-directed trading of US stocks, ETFs, and options with no account minimums. The platform provides REST APIs (originally developed from the TradeKing acquisition) for managing self-directed investment accounts, placing trades, accessing streaming real-time market data, retrieving account balances and holdings, managing watchlists, and querying market quotes and news. Authentication uses OAuth 1.0 with consumer and token credentials. Responses are available in JSON and XML formats.

## Kin Score — 52.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 66.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 54.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 45.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (11)

- **Ally Invest Orders API** — The Ally Invest Orders API enables programmatic placement and management of equity and options orders for self-directed brokerage accounts. Orders are submitted using a FIXML-va...
- **Ally Invest Market Data API** — The Ally Invest Market Data API provides access to real-time and delayed market data including equity and options quotes, option chains, option strikes and expirations, market n...
- **Ally Invest Streaming Market Data API** — The Ally Invest Streaming API delivers real-time market quotes via a persistent HTTP streaming connection. Clients subscribe to one or more ticker symbols and receive continuous...
- **Ally Invest Watchlists API** — The Ally Invest Watchlists API allows programmatic creation and management of symbol watchlists associated with a member account. Supports listing all watchlists, creating new w...
- **Ally Invest Member API** — The Ally Invest Member API provides access to the authenticated member's profile information including account identifiers and user details associated with the OAuth credentials.
- **Ally Invest Accounts API** — Account balances, holdings, history, and portfolio data
- **Ally Invest Market Data API** — Quotes, options, news, time-and-sales, and top lists
- **Ally Invest Member API** — Member profile and identity
- **Ally Invest Orders API** — Order placement, preview, retrieval, and cancellation
- **Ally Invest Utilities API** — API status and version utilities
- **Ally Invest Watchlists API** — Watchlist creation and symbol management

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ally Invest Agentic Access** — 28 operations · 7 acting

## Security (2)

- **Ally Invest Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Ally Invest Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ally Invest Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Algorithmic Trading** — Build automated trading systems that place and manage orders based on market signals
- **Portfolio Monitoring** — Track account balances, holdings, and performance in real time via API
- **Market Data Aggregation** — Retrieve real-time and delayed quotes, options chains, and news for analysis
- **Watchlist Management** — Maintain dynamic symbol watchlists and retrieve quote updates for tracked securities
- **Trade Journaling** — Pull account history and order records programmatically for trade journaling tools

## Tags

Brokerage, Investing, Trading, Finance, Stocks, Options, Market Data, Self-Directed

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ally-invest/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.