Every StaxInvesting article covering trade-only api key · 2 posts.
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Your API credential is the entire security boundary between a trading tool and your money. Everything else is commentary. This is the operational manual: what each permission actually enables, why withdrawal access should never be granted to any tool, the uncomfortable reason a trade-only key is bounded rather than safe, and a step-by-step revocation drill for the day something looks wrong.
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.
