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	Trading API
Your customers	An organization	console.truemarkets.co	Gateway
Your firm	Access set up with our team	[email protected]	Institutional

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. 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

Build for your customers

Create an organization at 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

Connect your firm

Institutional clients trade directly on the True Markets exchange over REST or FIX. To start onboarding, email [email protected]. We issue your credentials and set up the private network connection that FIX needs.

Next: About Institutional