tastytrade

Connect tastytrade to TradersPost for automated stocks, options, futures, and crypto trading, including market data and fractional support.

Contact Information

Email: [email protected]

Phone: +1 (888) 247-1963

Supported Asset Classes

  • Stocks
  • Options
  • Index Options
  • Futures
  • Crypto

One tastytrade account, five asset classes

tastytrade is one of the few connections that can take stocks, stock options, index options, futures and crypto. Each asset class has its own rules, and most of the surprises are in the details.

Match the strategy to the asset class

You connect with OAuth and subscribe the account to a strategy. The strategy's asset class decides what a signal turns into, so a futures alert goes to a futures strategy and a crypto alert goes to a crypto one.

  • Strategy that takes the alert

    Stocks
    A stock strategy
    Stock options
    An option strategy
    Index options
    An index option strategy
    Futures
    A futures strategy
    Crypto
    A crypto strategy

  • Quotes through TradersPost

    Stocks
    tastytrade
    Stock options
    tastytrade
    Index options
    tastytrade
    Futures
    tastytrade
    Crypto
    tastytrade

A futures entry can be as short as a dated contract: ticker MNQZ2026, action buy.

Where quotes come from

TradersPost reads quotes from tastytrade itself, so a signal does not need to carry a price.

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    Used first

    tastytrade market data

    • Quotes for stocks, stock options, index options, futures and crypto

Fractional crypto works, fractional stocks are a trap

tastytrade lets you hold fractional shares, but they are meant for leftovers from dividends or account adjustments, not for trading. Leave fractional quantities off for stock strategies.

  • You send: A fractional crypto order

    At tastytrade: Works in a single order with no special handling

    Supported

  • You send: A sale of all 4.99 shares you hold

    At tastytrade: Cannot go in one order: you would sell the 0.99 first and then the four whole shares

    Two orders

  • You send: Fractional quantities turned on for a stock strategy

    At tastytrade: Every fractional order has to meet the same rules as on any other connection

    Same rules

A fractional tastytrade order must meet every rule

3 of 4 met

  • Met: Time in force is Day

    DAY

  • Met: Order type is market

    Market

  • Met: Long only, no short sale

    Buy

  • Not met: No take profit or stop loss attached

    Stop loss 5%

    Fix: Remove the exit, or send it as a separate signal.

This order will not go through as fractional.

What tastytrade supports

Order types and features by asset class, as TradersPost sends them to tastytrade.

What tastytrade supports
Capability Stocks Long and short Futures Long and short Crypto Long only Stock options Long and short Index options Long and short
Order types
Market orders Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Limit orders Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Stop orders Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Stop-limit orders Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Trailing stops No No No No No
Time in force
Day Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Good till canceled Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Immediate or cancel No No Yes No No
Fill or kill No No No No No
At the open No No No No No
At the close No No No No No
Attached exits
Bracket orders Yes Yes No Yes Yes
OCO orders Yes Yes No Yes Yes
OTO orders No No No No No
Trailing stop attached No No No No No
Direction and size
Short selling Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Fractional quantity Yes Not applicable Yes Not applicable Not applicable
  • Crypto: Take profit and stop loss cannot be attached to the entry. Send them as separate signals after the entry.

tastytrade: 4 things that work differently

  • Sizing Fractional stock orders have rules of their own

    A fractional stock order must be a day order, long only, with no take profit or stop loss attached. tastytrade accepts up to 8 decimal places.

  • Orders No trailing stops

    tastytrade does not offer trailing stop orders.

  • Account No paper trading

    tastytrade has no paper mode on TradersPost. Rehearse a strategy on the TradersPost paper broker first, or start with small live sizes.

  • Futures Send the next contract month before each roll

    Futures contracts expire and TradersPost does not roll them for you. Send an explicit symbol for the next contract month before the roll date.

    Futures trading docs (opens in a new tab)

Limitations

  • tastytrade does not allow shorting crypto. Their help centre states that "only net long positions may be established" and that you "cannot short cryptocurrency", so a strategy trading crypto on tastytrade must be configured for long positions only.
  • tastytrade offers only Market and Limit orders for the Crypto asset class. Stop and Stop Limit are not available, which also means a crypto stop loss cannot use those types.

tastytrade automation questions

Can I send TradingView options and futures to tastytrade?
Yes, when the TradersPost strategy asset class matches (stock options, index options, or futures) and the tastytrade account is subscribed. Crypto and stocks use the same webhook pattern with their own strategy asset class.