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Etrade

E*TRADE is an online brokerage firm that provides a platform for investors to trade stocks, options, futures, and bonds. The E*TRADE Developer Platform offers REST APIs for account management, real-time quotes, option chains, and order placement, secured by OAuth 1.0a. The APIs are available to E*TRADE customers who register through the developer portal and provide both a sandbox and production environment.

Etrade publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Accounts API, Market API, and Order API. Tagged areas include Bonds, Brokerage, Financial, Futures, and Options.

Etrade’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, signup flow, and 5 more developer resources.

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42.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
3 APIs
BondsBrokerageFinancialFuturesOptionsStocksTrading

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 42.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 12.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Etrade Accounts API

Customer account list, balances, portfolio, and transactions

Etrade Market API

Quotes, option chains, option expirations, and product lookup

Etrade Order API

Preview, place, change, and cancel equity and option orders

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

E*TRADE API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Etrade Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Etrade Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Etrade Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Etrade Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Etrade Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Etrade Agentic Access

8 operations · 2 acting

8 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

How to Invest in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Boom

2026-05-25

Artificial Intelligence | Learn and Invest | E*TRADE

2026-05-25

Morgan Stanley finalises $13bn E*TRADE acquisition deal

2026-05-25

E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley

2026-05-25

Morgan Stanley Dives Deeper Into Retail With E*Trade Deal

2026-05-25

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal
 Signup
Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: etrade
name: Etrade
description: E*TRADE is an online brokerage firm that provides a platform for investors to trade stocks, options, futures,
  and bonds. The E*TRADE Developer Platform offers REST APIs for account management, real-time quotes, option chains, and
  order placement, secured by OAuth 1.0a. The APIs are available to E*TRADE customers who register through the developer portal
  and provide both a sandbox and production environment.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/etrade/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/etrade.png
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2025-02-17'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Bonds
- Brokerage
- Financial
- Futures
- Options
- Stocks
- Trading
apis:
- aid: etrade:etrade-accounts-api
  name: Etrade Accounts API
  description: Customer account list, balances, portfolio, and transactions
  humanURL: https://developer.etrade.com/home
  baseURL: https://api.etrade.com/v1
  tags:
  - Accounts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/etrade-accounts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.etrade.com/home
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.etrade.com/getting-started
  - type: Signup
    url: https://developer.etrade.com/home
- aid: etrade:etrade-market-api
  name: Etrade Market API
  description: Quotes, option chains, option expirations, and product lookup
  humanURL: https://developer.etrade.com/home
  baseURL: https://api.etrade.com/v1
  tags:
  - Market
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/etrade-market-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.etrade.com/home
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.etrade.com/getting-started
  - type: Signup
    url: https://developer.etrade.com/home
- aid: etrade:etrade-order-api
  name: Etrade Order API
  description: Preview, place, change, and cancel equity and option orders
  humanURL: https://developer.etrade.com/home
  baseURL: https://api.etrade.com/v1
  tags:
  - Order
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/etrade-order-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.etrade.com/home
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.etrade.com/getting-started
  - type: Signup
    url: https://developer.etrade.com/home
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/etrade-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/etrade-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/etrade-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/etrade
- url: https://us.etrade.com/
  type: Portal
- url: https://developer.etrade.com/home
  type: Documentation
- url: https://developer.etrade.com/home
  type: Signup
- url: https://us.etrade.com/etx/sd/legaldoc/customer-agreements
  type: TermsOfService
- url: https://us.etrade.com/l/f/privacy/security-center
  type: PrivacyPolicy
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com