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title: "API trading - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "Placing and managing orders programmatically through an interface rather than by hand. It is how custom systems, risk monitors, journals and analytics…"
url: "https://getfundednow.com/glossary/api-trading"
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last_modified: "2026-09-22"
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disclosure: "All trading at Get Funded Now is simulated. 'Funded' means a simulated or virtual account; GFN is not a broker and does not hold client funds."
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Tooling and execution

# API trading

Placing and managing orders programmatically through an interface rather than by hand. It is how custom systems, risk monitors, journals and analytics tools connect to an account, and it carries the same rules as manual trading.

GFN’s figure

Trading credentials for a GFN account are issued on purchase and arrive by email within minutes; the account is available on desktop, web browser and mobile. Credentials must be kept private - trades placed after login details are shared remain the account holder's responsibility.

In detail

## API trading, explained

The most valuable thing to build against an account is usually not an entry system but a risk monitor: something that knows the daily allowance and the drawdown floor and refuses to let a position exceed them.

Whatever the interface, credentials are the trader's responsibility. Anything holding them has the same access to the account that the trader does.

[Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More tooling and execution](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/tooling)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Algorithmic trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/algorithmic-trading) - Trading decisions and execution driven by code rather than by a person. It covers everything from a single automated entry rule to a fully systematic strategy running unattended.
- [Expert advisor](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/expert-advisor) - A program that places trades automatically according to coded rules. It executes a strategy without a trader present, which removes hesitation and removes judgement at the same time.
- [VPS](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/vps) - A rented always-on server used to run trading software continuously. It keeps an automated strategy running through a local power cut, a lost connection or a closed laptop.
- [Account sharing](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/account-sharing) - Letting someone else trade your account, or trading an account belonging to someone else. It defeats the purpose of an assessment of an individual, and it is prohibited everywhere in the industry without exception.
- [Latency](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/latency) - The delay between an action and its effect - an order leaving your machine and reaching the venue, or a price leaving the venue and reaching your screen. Measured in milliseconds.

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## Your capital stays yours. The risk is ours.

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