Trade It

Review brokerage accounts, holdings, and orders, look up assets, and review trades with your AI assistant. The Trade It plugin bundles a hosted MCP connection and a workflow skill. Available tools depend on your client and permissions.

Building a product with our SDK or API? Use Trade It Developer. Both offerings are available through the shared Trade It marketplace in Codex and Claude Code.

Supported brokerages

See the brokerage guide for current availability, supported order types, and connection details. TradeStation Paper supports simulated trading.

Related MCP server: Alpaca Trading MCP Server

Install the plugin

Codex

codex plugin marketplace add trade-it-inc/skills
codex plugin add trade-it@trade-it

Start a new session and authenticate the Trade It MCP connection when prompted. Select Trade It through /skills or the $ picker, or ask to see your accounts. Codex plugin documentation

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add trade-it-inc/skills
/plugin install trade-it@trade-it

Start a new session and use /mcp to authenticate Trade It. Invoke /trade-it:trade-it-mcp or ask about your brokerage accounts. Claude Code plugin documentation

Cursor

1. Open Settings → Plugins.

2. Paste https://github.com/trade-it-inc/trade-it-mcp into the plugin search box.

3. Install Trade It, then connect its MCP server and authenticate when prompted.

VS Code / GitHub Copilot

1. Enable chat.plugins.enabled in settings.

2. Run Chat: Install Plugin From Source in the Command Palette.

3. Enter https://github.com/trade-it-inc/trade-it-mcp and install Trade It.

4. Start a new chat and authenticate the MCP connection when prompted.

See the VS Code plugin documentation.

Other assistants

Add this remote server using your assistant's MCP connection settings:

https://mcp.tradeit.app/mcp

Use Streamable HTTP. Trade It runs the server; no local server, Node.js, or React SDK is needed for a direct remote connection. The old HTTP+SSE transport is no longer supported. /sse is only a legacy URL alias for the current handler; it is not an SSE connection endpoint.

If your assistant also supports standalone skills, you can optionally install the workflow guidance:

npx skills add trade-it-inc/trade-it-mcp --skill trade-it-mcp

This optional installer requires Node.js/npm. Run it from your project, or add --global for a personal installation. It installs instructions only; configure the MCP connection separately. Choose either the plugin or a standalone skill copy to avoid duplicate guidance.

Connect your account

1. Authenticate through the browser-based OAuth flow when your assistant encounters an MCP/API 401.

2. Review and approve the requested access to your Trade It account.

3. Connect a brokerage on Trade It if you have not already.

If your client supports bearer headers, you can instead use a user-created API key. Keep keys in the client's credential settings. See MCP authentication and API authentication.

Installing the plugin and authorizing an account are separate steps. Your connections belong to your Trade It account. A personal MCP connection does not grant access to another user's accounts.

Try it

• “Show my connected accounts and holdings.”

• “What is the status of my recent orders?”

• “Prepare an order for me to review before I decide whether to place it.”

• “Create a shareable Trade Link.”

Tools

The authenticated server's tool list and schemas are authoritative. Some clients offer account data and Trade Links without trading tools. See the workflow notes and full tool documentation.

Review before trading

Prefer a draft that you can review before execution. Account auto-execution settings can cause creation itself to submit an order; approve the exact order before any call that could submit it. The skill does not change those settings.

flowchart LR
    A[Choose account and order] --> B[Create a draft]
    B --> C[Review the order]
    C --> D[Approve this order]
    D --> E[Submit]
    E --> F[Check returned status]

This diagram shows the draft workflow. An accepted order is not necessarily filled, and a cancellation request is not necessarily a completed cancellation. Check the returned status. Creating a Trade Link generates a URL; it does not place an order.

Updates and troubleshooting

Update or remove the plugin through your assistant's plugin manager. For standalone skills, use npx skills update trade-it-mcp or npx skills remove trade-it-mcp in the installation's project/global scope.

Brokerage support, order capabilities, and plan eligibility change over time. Use supported brokerages, the current docs, and the connected server's responses instead of a copied brokerage-ID list.

This repository

This repository distributes connection metadata, plugin manifests, and user workflow guidance. The hosted server implementation lives in the Trade It application repository.

Portable and native MCP files describe the same connection; clients load their supported format. Plugin versions and registry metadata versions are independent. See CONTRIBUTING.md for maintenance and registry publishing, and the shared plugin release instructions.

Help

• Setup and usage: Trade It documentation.

• Account or connection support: contact Trade It.

• Incorrect instructions or package metadata: open an issue with sanitized details.

• Vulnerabilities or exposed credentials: follow SECURITY.md.

Repository content is available under CC0-1.0. Trading involves risk. Trade It does not provide investment advice; review orders before approving them.