---
title: "Create an account"
url: https://docs.truemarkets.co/getting-started/create-an-account
description: "The account you need depends on who trades. You, your customers, or your firm."
---

Docs index: https://docs.truemarkets.co/llms.txt

# Create an account

The account you need depends on who trades: you, your customers, or your firm.

| Who trades | Create | At | Build with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| You | A True Markets account | [app.truemarkets.co](https://app.truemarkets.co/) | [Trading API](https://docs.truemarkets.co/trading-api) |
| Your customers | An organization | [console.truemarkets.co](https://console.truemarkets.co/) | [Gateway](https://docs.truemarkets.co/gateway) |
| Your firm | A True Markets account | [app.truemarkets.co](https://app.truemarkets.co/) | [Institutional](https://docs.truemarkets.co/institutional/overview) |

> **Every account trades with real funds**
> 
> There is no test mode. Keep your first trades small.

## Trade your own account

Create a True Markets account at [app.truemarkets.co](https://app.truemarkets.co/). It's the same account you use in the web app, and the app creates your wallet when you set up a passkey. When you trade it from code, these docs call you an API trader.

Create your API key in the app too. That one key signs your requests and your orders.

Next: [Create your API key](https://docs.truemarkets.co/trading-api/api-key)

## Build for your customers

Create an organization at [console.truemarkets.co](https://console.truemarkets.co/). An organization represents your business, and its name is the only thing you provide. Sign in with a work email that isn't also a personal True Markets trading login, because a trading account can't join an organization. These docs call you a Gateway client.

Your customers don't sign up with True Markets. You create a user for each of them through the API, and every user gets a wallet.

Next: [Getting started with Gateway](https://docs.truemarkets.co/gateway/quickstart)

## Connect your firm

Institutional clients trade directly on the True Markets exchange over REST, WebSocket or FIX. Sign in at [app.truemarkets.co](https://app.truemarkets.co/) and create an API key there. For FIX, email [support@truemarkets.co](mailto:support@truemarkets.co) and we set up the private network connection it needs.

Next: [About Institutional](https://docs.truemarkets.co/institutional/overview)