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TD Ameritrade

TD Ameritrade was a US retail brokerage that provided REST APIs for trading equities and options, accessing streaming market data, managing brokerage accounts, and retrieving historical and real-time market data. Following the Charles Schwab acquisition, the TD Ameritrade API was shut down on May 10, 2024. Schwab has ported much of the original functionality into the Schwab Trader API.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles TD Ameritrade the way a machine reads it — 26 machine-readable artifacts across 15 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — TD Ameritrade scores 51.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 51.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Securities & Market Data 6.9 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
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

How we profile TD Ameritrade

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for TD Ameritrade. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 15

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

TD Ameritrade Market Data API

Provides REST endpoints for accessing real-time and historical market data. Includes current quotes for single and multiple symbols, historical price history for equities and ET...

TD Ameritrade Instruments API

Provides REST endpoints for searching and retrieving instrument details by symbol or CUSIP. Supports searching by symbol or description and retrieving fundamental data including...

TD Ameritrade Authentication API

Implements OAuth 2.0 token-based authentication as described in RFC6749 section 1.3.1. Applications registered on the TD Ameritrade Developer Portal receive a Consumer Key (clie...

TD Ameritrade Streaming Market Data API

Provides a WebSocket-based streaming API that delivers up-to-the-second market data including real-time Level 1 and Level 2 quotes, time and sales data for equities, options, an...

TD Ameritrade Accounts and Trading API

The Accounts and Trading API from TD Ameritrade — 7 operation(s) for accounts and trading.

TD Ameritrade Authentication API

The Authentication API from TD Ameritrade — 1 operation(s) for authentication.

TD Ameritrade Instruments API

The Instruments API from TD Ameritrade — 2 operation(s) for instruments.

TD Ameritrade Market Hours API

The Market Hours API from TD Ameritrade — 2 operation(s) for market hours.

TD Ameritrade Movers API

The Movers API from TD Ameritrade — 1 operation(s) for movers.

TD Ameritrade Option Chains API

The Option Chains API from TD Ameritrade — 1 operation(s) for option chains.

TD Ameritrade Price History API

The Price History API from TD Ameritrade — 1 operation(s) for price history.

TD Ameritrade Quotes API

The Quotes API from TD Ameritrade — 2 operation(s) for quotes.

TD Ameritrade Transaction History API

The Transaction History API from TD Ameritrade — 2 operation(s) for transaction history.

TD Ameritrade User Info & Preferences API

The User Info & Preferences API from TD Ameritrade — 3 operation(s) for user info & preferences.

TD Ameritrade Watchlist API

The Watchlist API from TD Ameritrade — 3 operation(s) for watchlist.

Scroll within the panel for all 15 ·

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

TD Ameritrade GraphQL Schema

TD Ameritrade was a major US retail brokerage that provided REST APIs for trading equities and options, accessing streaming market data, managing brokerage accounts, and retriev...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

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

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Td Ameritrade Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

TD Ameritrade API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

TD Ameritrade API Schemas

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 1

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Td Ameritrade Examples

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

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

Td Ameritrade Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

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

Td Ameritrade Agentic Access

36 operations · 12 acting

36 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for TD Ameritrade — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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