Your bot trades through one broker at a time, and you choose which one. The control is on the Strategies page, in the Broker card — the line at the top always tells you where your money is actually going:
Currently executing on TastyTrade
Every broker in the list runs the same strategies, the same filters and the same risk settings. What changes is whose account the orders land in, and what that account is able to do.
What you can trade where
| Broker | Trades | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| TastyTrade | Options (single-leg and spreads) | The default. The broker holds your bracket, so your stop and target rest at the exchange. See Connecting TastyTrade. |
| Robinhood | Single-leg options only | Uses Robinhood's Agentic Trading account. Your stop rests at the broker; the take-profit is watched by your bot. See Trading on Robinhood. |
| Plus500 Futures | CME index futures (ES, MES, NQ, MNQ, RTY, M2K) | Runs against a Plus500 US Futures account through the T4 platform, in simulation or live. See Plus500 Futures (T4). |
| Tradovate Futures | CME index futures (ES, MES, NQ, MNQ, RTY, M2K) | Runs against your own Tradovate account, on demo funds or live. One stop and one target per trade — runner legs need Plus500 or Paper. |
| Paper | Options and futures | Simulated money, no broker account needed. See Paper Trading. |
Spreads, multi-leg exits and futures aren't available on every broker — the per-broker topics above say exactly what each one can and can't do, and your bot simply won't place an order a broker can't support.
Every broker is listed, set up or not
Your picker shows every broker for the markets you hold, whether or not your bot is connected to it yet:
- Options brokers (TastyTrade and Robinhood) show for options customers.
- Futures brokers (Plus500 and Tradovate) show for anyone who holds the futures market from the Marketplace.
- Paper is always there, for everyone, whatever you hold — it's how you try a market before you pay for it.
A broker your bot isn't connected to yet says Not set up · How to connect. Click it and this guide opens at that broker's setup steps. You can't switch to it until it's connected, because its credentials live in your bot's own app settings (Config Vars), never in this app — nobody types a brokerage password into the portal. Once they're set and your bot restarts, the same tile becomes an ordinary choice you can click.
Example
You hold the options market and your bot only has tastytrade credentials. Your picker shows TastyTrade (Active), Robinhood (Not set up) and Paper. After the Robinhood authorization and a restart, Robinhood becomes selectable, and switching to it is one click.
If a broker is greyed out with Credentials not configured, your bot offers it but its credentials are missing or incomplete — check them against the table below.
Note
Still says Not set up after you've added the credentials? Restart your bot first — the credentials are only read when it starts. If it still says so, your bot may need an update before it can use that broker. Contact support.
Switching
- Close everything on the broker you're leaving. If anything is still open, you'll get Cannot switch brokers, listing each open position. The Flatten All Now button closes them and retries in one step — it sells at the market, so use it deliberately.
- Click the broker you want. Some switches take effect immediately.
- Restart when asked. Others save your choice and show a Restart required banner, because the connection to the new broker is built when your bot boots. Hit Restart ATS now and give it 20–40 seconds; the banner clears itself when the new broker is live.
Until that restart finishes, the top line still names the old broker — and that's the truth, not a display lag. Your saved choice isn't trading anything yet.
What carries over, and what doesn't
Your strategies, alert sources, risk settings and killswitches are all account-wide — they follow you to the new broker untouched. Your trade history doesn't merge: pages with a Live / Paper switch keep simulated trades separate from real ones, and each trade is stamped with the broker that executed it, so a switch never rewrites what already happened.
Tip
The safest way to try a new broker is not to guess. Run it on Paper first to confirm the strategy behaves the way you expect, then switch — the settings are identical either way.
Note
If your account is paper-locked, the picker is read-only and says so. That's a permanent restriction on the license, not something a setting can undo — contact support if you think it's wrong.