TD Ameritrade is a stockbroker that offers an electronic trading platform for the trade of financial assets including common stocks, preferred stocks, futures contracts, exchange-traded funds, forex, options, mutual funds, fixed income investments, margin lending, and cash management services.
Go to siteThe TD Ameritrade API offers access to a brokerage's suite of trading services. With it, you can retrieve market data, manage accounts, place trades, and get updates on orders and positions. Integrating the TD Ameritrade API with Pipedream allows for the automation of various trading strategies and the syncing of financial data with other services, all in a serverless environment.
import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
td_ameritrade: {
type: "app",
app: "td_ameritrade",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://api.tdameritrade.com/v1/userprincipals`,
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.td_ameritrade.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
},
})
},
})
Automated Trading System: Create a Pipedream workflow that reacts to specific market conditions by placing trades on TD Ameritrade. Use data from other sources to inform these conditions, like a stock reaching a certain price, or a news alert from a service like RSS or Twitter.
Portfolio Synchronization: Build a workflow that periodically fetches your portfolio information from TD Ameritrade and syncs it with your preferred spreadsheet app, like Google Sheets, to maintain an up-to-date overview of your investments.
Alerts and Notifications: Set up a Pipedream workflow to monitor your TD Ameritrade account for key events like executed trades or dividends received, and then send notifications through email, SMS, or messaging apps like Slack to keep you informed in real-time.
TD Ameritrade uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your TD Ameritrade account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into TD Ameritrade and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any TD Ameritrade API.
Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:
AccountAccess
GET
https://auth.tdameritrade.com/auth
?
client_id={{oauth.client_id}}@AMER.OAUTHAP
&
redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}
&
response_type=code
&
state={{oauth.state}}
&
scope={{oauth.space_separated_scopes}}
POST
https://api.tdameritrade.com/v1/oauth2/token
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
accept: application/json
client_id={{oauth.client_id}}
&
redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}
&
grant_type=authorization_code
&
code={{oauth.code}}
&
access_type=offline
POST
https://api.tdameritrade.com/v1/oauth2/token
content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
accept: application/json
client_id={{oauth.client_id}}
&
grant_type=refresh_token
&
refresh_token={{oauth.refresh_token}}