Brokers
Your broker, your keys, our plumbing.
Trading on margin can lose you more than you put in. Past results, including backtests, do not predict future results. Cloud9Trader provides tools and education, not financial advice. Read the full risk warning.
Cloud9Trader does not hold your money. It connects to an account you already have with a broker or exchange, streams its prices, balances and positions to your screen, and sends your orders to it. You can also practise with no broker at all on the free demo account.
Start on a practice account. Every broker below that offers one says so, and Cloud9Trader asks you to confirm that a broker account you connect from the accounts page is a demo account.
What each broker supports today
Section titled “What each broker supports today”| Broker | Markets | Prices and charts | Manual orders | Algorithm sessions | Practice route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OANDA | Forex and CFDs | Yes | Market buy orders | Yes | Practice account |
| Bitfinex | Crypto spot | Yes | Market, limit and stop-limit | No | None |
| Alpaca (beta) | US stocks and ETFs | Not yet | Market, limit, stop and stop-limit | No | Paper account |
| Binance (beta) | Crypto spot | Not yet | Market, limit, stop and stop-limit | No | Spot testnet |
| Bybit (beta) | Crypto spot and USDT perpetuals | Not yet | Market, limit, stop and stop-limit | No | Demo trading or testnet |
| Coinbase (beta) | Crypto spot | Not yet | Market, limit and stop-limit | No | None |
| IG (beta) | Forex, indices and commodities (CFDs and spread bets) | Not yet | Market, limit and stop | No | Demo account |
| Kraken (beta) | Crypto spot | Not yet | Market, limit, stop and stop-limit | No | None |
| OKX (beta) | Crypto spot | Not yet | Market and limit | No | Demo trading |
| Demo account | Instruments from the price feeds above | Yes | Yes | Yes | It is the practice route |
“Algorithm sessions” means a trading session can open and close positions on that broker for you. Where it says no, you can trade by hand but an algorithm cannot.
Beta connections are new. Each is built and tested against the venue’s published API but has not yet been run end to end on a practice account, so start on the practice route and check each order on the venue’s own site. Coinbase and Kraken have no practice account for spot, so every order on them uses real money.
Not available yet
Section titled “Not available yet”These connections are not open to users yet, so they are not listed above.
| Broker | Where it stands |
|---|---|
| Interactive Brokers | In development: the connection waits on Interactive Brokers’ approval of Cloud9Trader’s sign-in |
When one of these opens up, it gets its own page here and an entry in What’s new.
Retired
Section titled “Retired”These connections have been removed, because the venue has closed or no longer offers the access Cloud9Trader needs. You can’t add them, and one you already have stops with a message naming it. A key you saved is still listed in Exchange API Keys so you can delete it.
| Broker | What is left |
|---|---|
| FXCM | Price history for backtests and charts |
| BitMEX, HitBTC, Coinigy | Price history for backtests, where it exists |
| Bittrex, Bitstamp, Currenex | Nothing |
Keep your keys safe
Section titled “Keep your keys safe”- Create keys with only the permissions Cloud9Trader needs: reading your account and placing orders. Never enable withdrawals. Binance, Bybit, Coinbase, Kraken and OKX keys that can withdraw or transfer funds are refused.
- Keys are stored encrypted and are never shown again after you save them.
- To stop a connection for certain, delete the key in Cloud9Trader and revoke it at the broker. Deleting it here removes it from your account, but a connection that is already open can keep running for a while.
Read next
Section titled “Read next”- OANDA: the most complete connection today.
- From demo to live: when and how to move from practice to real money.