Signal Trade App API Keys Guide

Category: App Pages | Last updated: 2026-06-15 | Reading time: 5 min read

API keys page showing created keys, scopes, and usage instructions.

What Is the API Keys Page?

The Signal Trade App API keys page for creating and managing programmatic access keys — The API Keys page: create and manage keys for programmatic access to your account.

The API Keys page lets you create and revoke API keys for programmatic access. Use keys to send orders from TradingView webhooks, build custom dashboards, or connect external risk systems.

How to Create an API Key

Go to API Keys.
Click Create New Key.
Give the key a name, for example: "TradingView MNQ Strategy".
Select the scopes you need: read-only or trade (place orders, flatten, webhooks).
Click Generate and copy the key immediately. It is shown only once.

API Key Scopes

Scope	What It Allows
read	Read accounts, positions, trade history, strategies, and user info.
trade	Place orders, attach TP/SL protection, flatten accounts, create webhooks, and create strategies.

Using Your Key

Include the key in the X-API-Key header of every request:

X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY

API documentation is available at /api-docs.

Idempotent Orders

When placing orders via the API, include a unique Idempotency-Key header to avoid duplicate trades if a request retries:

POST /api/v1/accounts/ID/orders X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY Idempotency-Key: order-attempt-001 Content-Type: application/json

The same key returns the cached response for 24 hours without placing a second order.

Real-Time Connection Health

Use the SSE stream to monitor your broker connection status in real time. The stream emits connect, disconnect, reconnect, auth-expired, and fatal-error events for every connection owned by your API key.

GET /api/v1/connection-health/stream X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY Accept: text/event-stream

Example event stream:

data: {"type":"snapshot","connectionId":"conn_abc","status":"CONNECTED","ts":1719861123456} data: {"type":"status","connectionId":"conn_abc","status":"RECONNECTING","ts":1719861200000} data: {"type":"status","connectionId":"conn_abc","status":"CONNECTED","ts":1719861230000} data: {"type":"heartbeat","ts":1719861240000}

This is useful for dashboards or alerting systems that need to know immediately when a broker connection drops, without polling the API.

Developing with a Demo Account

The safest way to test trade-scoped integrations is with a Tradovate demo account. Demo connections use the same order path as live accounts, so your code is production-ready before any real money is at risk.

Go to Settings → Connections and add a Tradovate demo connection.
Create an API key with the trade scope.
Place small test orders through the demo account using the examples in API Docs.
Once verified, switch to a live account connection for production trading.

For read-only dashboards, a read-scope key is enough and carries no trading risk.

Security Best Practices

Never commit API keys to public repositories.
Use a separate key for each integration.
Revoke keys immediately if you suspect they are exposed.
Use read-only scopes for dashboards that do not need to trade.

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