Welcome to VecTrade

VecTrade provides a virtual trading platform where you learn real trading skills with live market data — plus free APIs and SDKs for developers to build their own financial apps.

New here? Follow the Quickstart Guide to make your first API call in under 2 minutes.

What You Can Build

Trading Bots

Build automated trading strategies with real-time quotes, technical indicators, and AI analysis.

Portfolio Dashboards

Create beautiful dashboards with live data, fundamentals, and risk metrics.

AI Agents

Power financial AI agents with structured data and streaming analysis via MCP or Vercel AI SDK. AI agents can trade autonomously with the Bot API.

Screening Tools

Build custom screeners with fundamental filters, technical signals, and sentiment data.

Platform at a Glance

Feature	Details
Endpoints	See the API Reference and OpenAPI spec for the current endpoint surface
Bot Trading API	Trade via `X-Bot-Key` with account/portfolio/order/KPI endpoints
Coverage	100K+ global instruments (equities, ETFs, indices)
Latency	Sub-100ms p95 response time
Streaming	Server-Sent Events for AI copilot
SDKs	Python, TypeScript, Go CLI, Vercel AI, MCP
Auth	X-API-Key header (Authorization bearer may be accepted in some direct deployments)
Rate Limits	30–300 req/min depending on plan
Environments	Production and UAT

Choose Your SDK

Python

pip install vectrade

TypeScript

npm install @vectrade/sdk

Go CLI

brew install VecTrade-io/vectrade/vectrade

Quick Example

from vectrade import VecTrade

client = VecTrade()  # uses VECTRADE_API_KEY env var
quote = client.quotes.get("AAPL")
print(f"{quote.symbol}: ${quote.price} ({quote.change_pct:+.2f}%)")

import { VecTrade } from '@vectrade/sdk';

const client = new VecTrade();
const quote = await client.quotes.get('AAPL');
console.log(`${quote.ticker}: $${quote.price} (${quote.change_percent}%)`);

vectrade quote AAPL

curl -H "X-API-Key: $VECTRADE_API_KEY" \
  https://api.vectrade.io/v1/vq/quotes/AAPL

Key Features

Feature	Description
Real-time Quotes	Sub-second market data for 100K+ instruments
Fundamentals	Income statements, balance sheets, ratios, and company profiles
Company Profiles	Sector, industry, exchange, and corporate details
Technicals	50+ indicators (RSI, MACD, Bollinger, etc.) with configurable periods
Sentiment	Social & news sentiment scoring with directional signals
Historical Data	OHLCV price history with configurable periods
Options	Full chains with Greeks, IV, and expiration data
Analyst Data	Wall Street consensus, price targets, and rating history
Earnings	EPS history, beat/miss records, and upcoming dates
ETF Data	NAV, holdings count, expense ratios for ETF instruments

Open Source

The entire VecTrade ecosystem is open source under the VecTrade-io GitHub organization. See the Ecosystem page for the full architecture and project map.

Repo	Purpose
vectrade-python	Python SDK (async, typed, streaming)
vectrade-node	TypeScript SDK (zero-dep, edge-ready)
vectrade-cli	Go CLI with OAuth and shell completions
vectrade-ai-provider	Vercel AI SDK tool provider
vectrade-mcp	Model Context Protocol server (16 tools)
finkit	Financial analytics (indicators, risk, screening)
vectrade-openapi	OpenAPI 3.1 specification
vectrade-examples	Runnable examples and templates

Getting Started

Create an account and get your API key
Install your preferred SDK
Follow the Quickstart Guide
Explore the API Reference
Build a trading bot with the Bot Trading Guide

VTrade

Getting Started

Guides

Resources

Introduction

Welcome to VecTrade

What You Can Build

Trading Bots

Portfolio Dashboards

AI Agents

Screening Tools

Platform at a Glance

Choose Your SDK

Python

TypeScript

Go CLI

Quick Example

Key Features

Open Source

Getting Started

​Welcome to VecTrade

​What You Can Build

Trading Bots

Portfolio Dashboards

AI Agents

Screening Tools

​Platform at a Glance

​Choose Your SDK

Python

TypeScript

Go CLI

​Quick Example

​Key Features

​Open Source

​Getting Started

Welcome to VecTrade

What You Can Build

Platform at a Glance

Choose Your SDK

Quick Example

Key Features

Open Source

Getting Started