Every StaxInvesting article covering broker api key permissions · 2 posts.
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Most explanations of trading software are either marketing abstraction or engineering documentation. This is the middle: what actually runs where, which of the three parties can do what, what an API key really is, how the software updates itself without you redeploying, and — the part nobody writes — exactly what happens when your instance dies, your broker goes down, or you revoke access.
Every automated trading tool claims it never touches your money. Most people can't evaluate whether that's true. This is a security-model breakdown of what the claim actually means — you connect your own brokerage with your own API keys, the software can place orders but has no custody and no withdrawal rights — and, more usefully, exactly how to verify the access scope of any trading tool before you trust it. The most credible version of 'we can't touch your funds' is the one you can check yourself in your broker's settings.
