# Algo Trader Tools

> Algo Trader Tools is a cloud trade copier for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 accounts. Its REST API is at https://api.algotradertools.com/v1, described by the OpenAPI document at https://api.algotradertools.com/v1/openapi.json, and its remote MCP server is at https://mcp.algotradertools.com/mcp. Both authenticate with an API key.

Every link below is the Markdown version of a docs page. The same address without `.md` is the HTML page, which also answers with Markdown to requests that send `Accept: text/markdown`.

## Getting started

- [Overview](https://algotradertools.com/docs.md): What the Algo Trader Tools API does, the concepts behind it and the conventions every endpoint follows.
- [Quickstart](https://algotradertools.com/docs/quickstart.md): Create an API key, connect a master and a follower account, create a copier and attach the follower, then check that it's copying.
- [Authentication](https://algotradertools.com/docs/authentication.md): Authenticate with API keys, choose their scopes, revoke them, keep them out of browsers, and trace requests with request IDs.
- [MCP server](https://algotradertools.com/docs/mcp.md): Let Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other AI agents manage your accounts, copiers and followers through the Model Context Protocol, with an API key.

## Guides

- [Accounts](https://algotradertools.com/docs/accounts.md): Connect MetaTrader 4 and 5 accounts, follow their status while the terminal starts, read their figures, reconnect them after a lapse and disconnect them.
- [Copiers](https://algotradertools.com/docs/copiers.md): Create a copier for a master account. Rename, pause, resume or delete it, with or without its open copies, and see what gets copied.
- [Followers](https://algotradertools.com/docs/followers.md): Attach accounts to a copier, set each one's rules for lot size, limits, direction, stops, symbols, symbol mapping and sessions, and read its live status.
- [Copy events](https://algotradertools.com/docs/events.md): Read what the copier engine did on each follower, such as opens, closes, stop changes and skipped trades, with the terminal's reply and timings.
- [Equity Guard](https://algotradertools.com/docs/equity-guard.md): What Equity Guard's floors, daily loss limits and profit targets do, and how the followers it pauses, trades it skips and copies it closes show in the API.

## Signal pages

- [Publish a strategy](https://algotradertools.com/docs/publish-a-strategy.md): Turn one of your accounts into a public strategy page that other traders can copy, free or for a price, and keep track of your followers.
- [Connect Stripe and PayPal](https://algotradertools.com/docs/connect-stripe-and-paypal.md): How followers pay you through your own Stripe and PayPal accounts, the access each one needs, and what we set up on them.
- [Copy a strategy](https://algotradertools.com/docs/copy-a-strategy.md): Copy another trader's strategy to one of your accounts. See what you pay, how a performance fee is counted and how a subscription ends.

## Reference

- [API reference](https://algotradertools.com/docs/api-reference.md): Reference for the Algo Trader Tools REST API: accounts, copiers, followers and copy events, with request and response schemas.
- [Errors](https://algotradertools.com/docs/errors.md): The problem details format, which failures are worth retrying, and every error code grouped by HTTP status with what to do about it.
- [Limits and pagination](https://algotradertools.com/docs/limits.md): Request rate limits and their headers, how lists are paged, how many accounts each plan connects, and the limits of what the copier copies.