Does TD Direct Investing allow copy trading?

Not automatically through TrueFills today. TD Direct Investing supports a read-only connection, which means a record held at TD Direct Investing can be read and verified, but no order can be placed in the account. You can still follow a strategy and place its trades yourself, and you can publish a verified record of your own TD Direct Investing trading.

Does TrueFills see my TD Direct Investing password?

No. The sign-in happens on TD Direct Investing’s own page, and TrueFills receives a connection rather than your credentials. You can revoke it at TD Direct Investing or here, independently.

Where does my money sit?

In your own TD Direct Investing account, throughout. TrueFills never takes custody of funds and cannot move money out of a brokerage account. A trading connection can place orders; it cannot withdraw.

Following a strategy is free during beta once a brokerage account is connected, or $29 a month without one. Listing a strategy and keeping its record is free.

Copy trading on TD Direct Investing

With your TD Direct Investing account, TrueFills can

Verify your record.

Trades are read from the TD Direct Investing account itself and sealed daily into a public chain, so your TD Direct Investing trading becomes a track record anyone can check rather than a screenshot anyone can make. It is free, it is what a prop firm asks for, and your money never moves: the connection reads the account and nothing else.

A strategy cannot place orders in your TD Direct Investing account yet. TD Direct Investing supports a read-only connection, which is the brokerage's side of the integration rather than a setting here.

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What the connection can do

reported by TD Direct Investing, not by us

Verify a record held hereYes

Trades are read from the TD Direct Investing account itself and sealed daily into a public chain, so a track record built there is checkable by anyone rather than taken on your word.

What it holdsStocks and ETFs

Equities and funds, which is what the strategies here trade.

Place a strategy's tradesNot yet

TD Direct Investing currently supports a read-only connection. TrueFills can see the account and its trades, and cannot place an order in it. This is the brokerage's side of the integration, not a setting you can turn on.

Fractional sharesNot published

TD Direct Investing has not published whether it accepts fractional orders, so TrueFills treats it as whole shares only. Whole shares work everywhere; fractional does not.

How current the record isDelayed

TD Direct Investing is read on a schedule rather than over a connection held open, so the record can trail the account by a day. Nothing is lost, it arrives later.

Connection statusBeta

Released but still settling. Expect the occasional reconnection.

What you can do today

A read-only connection is worth having on its own, and it is the whole of what TD Direct Investing allows today.

Publish a verified record

Connect TD Direct Investing read-only and your own trading becomes a broker-sourced record, sealed daily. Free, and it is what a prop firm asks for.

Follow and place by hand

Subscribe to a strategy and take its trades yourself. The record stays checkable either way.

Automate somewhere else

If you want a strategy to trade for you, it has to be an account at a brokerage that supports a trading connection.

Whichever you do, the record behind it is read from the brokerage account that placed the trades, sealed daily into a hash chain published in full, and recomputable in your own browser. Recompute a chain or read how a record is verified.

Questions about TD Direct Investing

Does TD Direct Investing allow copy trading?: Not automatically through TrueFills today. TD Direct Investing supports a read-only connection, which means a record held at TD Direct Investing can be read and verified, but no order can be placed in the account. You can still follow a strategy and place its trades yourself, and you can publish a verified record of your own TD Direct Investing trading.
Does TrueFills see my TD Direct Investing password?: No. The sign-in happens on TD Direct Investing’s own page, and TrueFills receives a connection rather than your credentials. You can revoke it at TD Direct Investing or here, independently.
Where does my money sit?: In your own TD Direct Investing account, throughout. TrueFills never takes custody of funds and cannot move money out of a brokerage account. A trading connection can place orders; it cannot withdraw.
What does it cost?: Following a strategy is free during beta once a brokerage account is connected, or $29 a month without one. Listing a strategy and keeping its record is free.

All supported brokerages Copy trading on Alpaca Paper Copy trading on AJ Bell TD Direct Investing’s own site

TrueFills is not affiliated with TD Direct Investing. Capabilities are reported by the brokerage connection and can change. Trading involves risk of loss, and past performance, live or simulated, does not guarantee future results.