Overall Score70 / 100The Wikilix trust rating of tastytrade, out of 100, built from the five factors below.It holds a valid FINRA 277027 licence and 3 more, and our investigation found it appears legitimate.Regulation88%Identity98%Client terms48%Trading offer50%Service46%Score last calculated 2026/10/29
Good65 to 79. A solid record with minor gaps and no stop sign.Why: It holds a valid FINRA 277027 licence and 3 more, and our investigation found it appears legitimate.
70 out of 100 · 88% checkedThe share of the record we could verify. What we could not check counts as unknown and pulls the score toward the middle, never down.
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It holds a valid FINRA 277027 licence and 3 more, and our investigation found it appears legitimate.
We checked tastytrade on 2026-10-29 across its regulation, company record, client terms, trading offer and service, and could verify 88% of its record. Its strongest valid licence is FINRA 277027, with 3 more valid. The score of 70 is what the checked record adds up to; nothing held it down. What would move the score: withdrawal rails, all-in eurusd cost, instrument breadth. Our published investigation found it appears legitimate, with 11.3 years of track record. Its client terms carry moderate risk, with 3 critical clauses.
Whether a financial authority supervises this broker: the licences it holds, whether we verified them on the official register, how strong that regulator is and what protection it gives clients. Worth 35 points of 100.
Identity
Who is behind it, and for how long?
98out of 100
Excellent
Counts for 15% of the score100% checked
What we checked
Registry-verified entity100
Company registration verified on the registry · Oct 14, 2026Source
Verified age100
Verified track record 11.3 years · Oct 14, 2026
Transparency90
Scam check identity transparency 1/10 · Oct 14, 2026
Site integrity100
Website reachable and not redirecting · Oct 14, 2026Source
What this measures
Who is behind it and for how long: a company registration we verified, years of verified history, how openly it names its entity, address and owners, and whether its website is intact. Worth 15 points.
Client terms
Are the client terms fair?
48out of 100
Poor
Counts for 15% of the score93% checked
What we checked
Policy risk45
Policy risk score 5.5/10 · Oct 14, 2026
Critical clauses50
3 critical clause(s) · Oct 14, 2026
Withdrawal rails37
5 rail(s): 1 fee-free of 3 known, 2 instant of 5 known, minimum unknown · Oct 14, 2026Source
Language parity70
2 contradiction(s) between language versions · Oct 14, 2026
What this measures
How fair the client agreement is: the risk found in our policy review, the number of critical clauses, withdrawal rules, and whether the terms say the same in every language. Worth 15 points.
Trading offer
What does trading cost, and is it disclosed?
50out of 100
Fair
Counts for 20% of the score50% checked
What we checked
All-in EURUSD costNot checked yet
No EURUSD spread known
Pricing disclosed per account type6
1 of 18 pricing cells filled across 6 account type(s) · Oct 14, 2026Source
Instrument breadth90
forex 80, crypto 20, cfd/indices/commodities/stocks ? · Oct 14, 2026Source
What trading costs and how clearly it is disclosed: pricing per account type, the all-in cost of EURUSD, instruments, platforms, leverage against regulated limits and the minimum deposit. Worth 20 points.
Service
How do they treat clients?
46out of 100
Poor
Counts for 15% of the score90% checked
What we checked
Fund-integrity complaints40
Scam check withdrawal complaints 6/10 · Oct 14, 2026
Support channels50
3 of 6 support checks (phone, email, 24/7 chat, 2+ languages, messenger, complaints email) · Oct 14, 2026
Reputation footprint50
Scam check reputation 5/10 · Oct 14, 2026
WIKILIX communityNot checked yet
0 approved review(s), fewer than 10
What this measures
How clients are treated: support channels, complaints about withdrawals and reputation from our investigation, and reviews by WIKILIX members. Worth 15 points.
What tastytrade legally published, but does not want you to read
Wikilix contract reading ·
Moderate contract risk
tastytrade is a real US broker with SIPC cover and a thorough set of risk disclosures. The contract that governs your account is not on its disclosures page at all, and neither are five other agreements that override the ones you can read. Clause 22(v) says nobody owes you a margin call, notice of a shortfall, or time to fix it before your positions are sold. Clause 25 can make you pay the firm's legal costs over a claim about losses you suffered yourself.
3Critical clausesClauses that can cost you money you have already earned or deposited, or that remove your ability to challenge it.
25Clauses flaggedEvery clause worth knowing about, at all three severities. Ordinary terms that every broker has are not counted.
28Documents readHow many of the broker’s own legal files this reading is based on. Each one was downloaded and hashed on the date shown.
5.5/10Contract riskHow far this contract goes overall, from 0 to 10. 3 to 5 means real costs a client should know about; 6 to 8 means several clauses put money already earned at risk.
What Wikilix has recorded about tastytrade: its history, the licences it holds, its trading conditions and its fees.
tastytrade Broker Overview
tastytrade is a United States brokerage operated by tastytrade, Inc., a Chicago firm that was formerly known as tastyworks, Inc. It is built for active options, futures and equities traders rather than for retail currency speculation, and it runs entirely on its own software: a desktop application, a browser platform and a mobile app, with an open trading API alongside them. There is no account minimum, pricing is published per product rather than per account tier, and the firm is registered with the United States securities and futures authorities.
tastytrade Regulation and License
The operating entity is tastytrade, Inc. It holds a United States broker-dealer registration recorded as CRD 277027 and SEC number 8-69649, effective 10 March 2016, and it is a FINRA member firm and a member of SIPC. Separately it is registered with the CFTC as an Introducing Broker and is an NFA member under NFA ID 0492333, effective 26 August 2016, with forex-firm approval added in November 2024 and swap-firm approval in May 2026. Both registrations were confirmed on the authorities' own registers on 4 August 2026, through FINRA BrokerCheck and the NFA BASIC system respectively. The FINRA entry also records three regulatory disclosures against the firm.
One point on the futures side deserves care. An Introducing Broker takes the order but does not hold client futures money: Apex Clearing Corporation is the clearing firm that holds and segregates customer futures and event-contract funds. tastytrade, Inc. is not a futures commission merchant and not a retail forex dealer, and it does not present itself as either.
A separate group company, tastytrade Australia Pty Ltd, holds Australian Financial Services Licence 508867. That licence belongs to the Australian entity and does not extend to clients of tastytrade, Inc.
Is tastytrade Regulated?
Yes. tastytrade, Inc. is a registered United States broker-dealer, supervised day to day by FINRA on the SEC's behalf, and it is a CFTC-registered Introducing Broker and NFA member. Both registrations were confirmed on the official registers on 4 August 2026. That places the firm under the onshore United States regime rather than under an offshore licence, which is the practical difference for anyone deciding where to hold money.
Is tastytrade Safe?
Regulation is only part of the answer here, because the protections differ sharply by product. Securities accounts carry SIPC cover up to 500,000 US dollars, including 250,000 dollars in cash, if the firm fails, and disputes can go to FINRA arbitration. Futures and event-contract accounts are not SIPC-protected at all; those balances are segregated by Apex Clearing Corporation under CFTC rules instead. Cryptocurrency sits further out again: trading and custody are provided by Zero Hash Liquidity Services LLC and Zero Hash LLC, which are licensed for virtual currency business activity by the New York State Department of Financial Services, and crypto assets carry neither FDIC nor SIPC coverage. A client holding all three products at tastytrade is therefore covered by three different regimes, and the firm's FINRA record carries three regulatory disclosures.
tastytrade Account Types
Six account families are offered, and they are United States brokerage structures rather than graded trading tiers:
Individual, opened as either a cash or a margin account.
Retirement, covering Traditional, Roth, SEP and inherited IRAs.
Joint, as tenants in common or with rights of survivorship.
Business and Trust, for United States corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and revocable or irrevocable trusts.
International, for residents of eligible countries outside the United States.
Hedge Funds, applied for through the entity application and including API access and a dedicated support team.
None of them carries its own minimum deposit or its own commission schedule, because both are set across the brand. Margin privileges are the one threshold that matters, and they require a day-end balance of 2,000 US dollars or more. Trading permissions are layered on top: short stock, uncovered calls and futures need the highest permission level, defined-risk spreads and uncovered puts the top two, while stock, long options, covered calls and crypto are available at every level. International clients can open individual cash, individual margin and joint accounts only, and the firm states that it does not support international entity accounts.
tastytrade Spreads, Commissions and Fees
Costs are quoted per product, and the publishes no spread markup. Stocks, ETFs and fractional shares are free to open and to close. Stock and ETF options cost 1 US dollar per contract to open, capped at 10 dollars per leg, and nothing to close; broad-based index options are the same 1 dollar to open and free to close. E-mini futures cost 1 dollar per contract each way, micro E-mini and E-nano futures 0.75 dollars each way, options on E-mini futures 1.25 dollars each way, and options on the micro and E-nano contracts 0.75 dollars each way. Cryptocurrency is charged at 1 per cent of the total to open and to close, falling to 0.75 per cent for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Exchange, clearing and regulatory fees are added to everything except cryptocurrency orders.
tastytrade Leverage
Leverage is a function of margin rules here rather than a headline multiplier. A standard margin account gives 2 to 1 against the cash balance once the day-end balance reaches 2,000 US dollars. Portfolio margin, a separate risk-based methodology that requires approval, raises that to roughly 6.7 to 1. Cash accounts trade with settled cash only and carry no leverage.
tastytrade Trading Platforms
All of the trading software is the firm's own, and there is no MetaTrader or cTrader option. The desktop application is the flagship, currently shipping as Desktop 2.0 for macOS, Windows and Linux, with the earlier build kept in maintenance mode. The browser platform runs without installation after signing in at my.tastytrade.com, and the mobile application covers iOS, iPad and Android. An open API, documented publicly and offered with a testing sandbox, carries both market data and order entry across equities, options, futures and crypto, which is what makes the platform usable for automated trading.
tastytrade Deposits and Withdrawals
Five funding channels are offered and no others: ACH bank transfer, wire transfer, an incoming brokerage account transfer by ACATS, paper check, and stablecoin deposits. There are no cards and no e-wallets. ACH is free in both directions, and where the bank is linked through Plaid up to 10,000 US dollars of a deposit is applied to buying power immediately. Incoming wires are free; an outbound domestic wire costs 25 US dollars and arrives in about one business day, while an international one costs 45 dollars and takes two to five. An incoming ACATS transfer carries no fee from tastytrade and typically takes 7 to 10 business days, and the firm reimburses the losing broker's exit fee up to 75 dollars for each 2,000 dollars transferred. Checks deposit in about four business days, and a withdrawal by check costs 5 dollars and is available to United States customers only.
Three constraints apply before funding an account. Everything must be in US dollars, and the firm provides no currency conversion. Third-party funding is not accepted in either direction, and the name on the external account has to match the brokerage account exactly. And stablecoin is currently a deposit route only: USDC, USDT, PYUSD and RLUSD are accepted from 1 dollar upward into a crypto-enabled individual account, but the firm states that stablecoin withdrawals are not yet supported, so money arriving that way has to leave by another route.
tastytrade Support
Support runs Monday to Thursday from 7:00 to 17:00 US Central time and Friday from 7:00 to 16:00, on a toll-free line, 1-888-247-1963, and an international line, +1-312-724-7075. Questions arising in the overnight futures session are handled by email rather than by phone. There is a live chat on the site that opens with a chatbot and can be escalated to a person, and a searchable help centre at . Email is split across seven departments, and the firm states that it does not accept orders by email: orders go through a platform or the trade desk line.
tastytrade Pros and Cons
Strengths. Onshore United States registration, confirmed on the official registers; no account minimum; per-contract options and futures pricing with a 10 dollar cap per options leg; free ACH funding in both directions; and proprietary desktop, web and mobile platforms alongside an open API that supports order entry.
Limitations. Leverage is capped at margin-rule levels rather than the multiples a currency broker advertises; funding is US dollars only, with no cards, no e-wallets and no currency conversion; stablecoin cannot yet be withdrawn; futures, event contracts and cryptocurrency all fall outside SIPC protection; the FINRA record carries three regulatory disclosures; and international clients are limited to individual and joint accounts from eligible countries.
tastytrade Review and Assessment
tastytrade is a conventional onshore United States broker-dealer with an unusually specific focus on options and futures, and its pricing and its software are both built around that focus rather than around currency trading. The registration position is the strongest thing on its record: SEC and FINRA on the securities side, CFTC and NFA on the futures side, each confirmed on the authority's own register. The most important question to settle before funding an account is which protection applies to the product you actually intend to trade, because securities, futures and cryptocurrency balances at this firm sit under three different regimes, and only the securities side carries SIPC cover.
Website archive
Captured
Website snapshots
8 full-page captures of tastytrade's own site, archived so what they said can still be read after the pages change.
tastytrade holds a tier-1 or tier-2 licence that we confirmed on the regulator's own register. Each licence below opens its record of what that register says.
4 of 4 checked
Licences on recordEvery licence or registration recorded for this broker, whether the broker claims it or our check found it.
4
Confirmed on registerLicences we located on the issuing regulator's own public register, with a screenshot taken at the time.
4
Tier 1 or 2Licences from tier-1 or tier-2 authorities (FCA, ASIC, CySEC and peers), the strongest client protection. A registration we could not confirm as a licence is not counted.
4
OffshoreLicences from offshore registers, which typically carry no compensation scheme and lighter oversight.
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WIKILIX
Licence intelligence
The strongest of 4 licences on file
Licence Verification Record
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority277027
Wikilix read the FINRA register on Oct 14, 2026. This is what it said.
Non-exchange member arranging for transactions in listed securities by exchange member
What our check found
Full membership of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as a registered broker-dealer, CRD 277027, licensed in 53 US states and territories. FINRA is the frontline supervisor of US broker-dealers and the body that examines and disciplines them. Client protection: Strong. Mandatory supervision and examination, a formal complaint and arbitration route for clients, and SIPC cover of up to 500,000 dollars per customer if the firm fails. Effective: 10 Mar 2016.
Client protection under this licence
Compensation schemeUp to USD 500000 (SIPC)
Complaints routeFINRA Arbitration
Maximum leverage1:50
These are the rules FINRA sets for the firms it licenses. They are not a statement about how tastytrade applies them, or about which of its companies would hold your account.
A licence record describes what an authority published. It is not an endorsement, and Wikilix does not issue authorisations.
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Explicitly accepted
Named as accepted — not a full list of served markets
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How we know — 8 sources
1The account-opening application at https://open.tastytrade.com/signup accepts a closed list of 59 countries of residence and refuses any other selection with the message "Unfortunately, tastytrade is not supported in your country yet." Those 59 countries form the accepted list. This record answers who can open an account, so the application outranks the published pages.
2The broker's own help centre article "Supported Countries for International Accounts" (https://support.tastytrade.com/support/s/solutions/articles/43000435355) names 56 eligible countries and states that accounts can only be opened from the countries explicitly listed there. The account-opening application additionally accepts Brunei, Guernsey and Jersey, which that article places in neither its eligible nor its restricted section; the application decides, so those three are on the accepted list.
3India is eligible for cash accounts only, with no margin accounts, per the same help centre article. India is on the accepted list; the cash-only limit is a product restriction, not a country refusal.
4Refused countries: the same help centre article has a "RESTRICTED COUNTRIES (Accounts CANNOT be opened)" section naming 87 entries, of which 84 are countries or territories in their own right and are listed as refused. Canada is also called out at the top of that article as not supported, with no Canadian accounts currently accepted.
5Three entries in that restricted section are not listed separately. "Zaire" is a former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which the same section also lists. "Anjouan" is an island of the Comoros, not a state, and the Comoros is already listed. "Kosovo" has no standard country code.
6No territory takes its status from a parent country. The help centre article decides territories one by one, not by parent country: the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man are eligible while Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Montserrat are restricted. So no refusal extends to an unnamed territory of a named country.
7There are no likely but unconfirmed refusals. The only category wording the site publishes is the standing footer disclaimer, that the website and brokerage services "are not intended for persons of any jurisdiction where tastytrade is not authorized to do business", which names no jurisdiction. The accepted list already reflects that the eligible list is closed. Countries outside it are not each listed as refused, because the broker also publishes a separate Australian site at https://tastytrade.com/en-au/ and an Australian margin loan product disclosure statement listed at https://tastytrade.com/disclosures/. So absence from that application's list does not prove the brand refuses a country. Australia is therefore in neither list.
8Locations that held no country policy: the funding guide (https://tastytrade.com/learn/accounts/account-resources/how-to-fund/) states only that deposits are accepted in USD and not from a third party; the promotions page (https://tastytrade.com/partners/) limits its current cash bonus to legal United States residents, a promotion condition rather than an onboarding rule. The client agreement and account forms sit behind the client portal sign-in at https://my.tastytrade.com/ and are not covered here, and the public site publishes no restricted-countries, terms, legal or anti-money-laundering page.
Deposits & withdrawals
Funding Methods
5 ways to fund an account. 3 with no deposit fee. 2 credit instantly.
5 methods
Method
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Withdrawal fee
Min deposit
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Bank TransferBank TransferACH transfer from a linked bank account. The broker states twice that it charges nothing in either direction: "we don't charge fees for ACH deposits and withdrawals" on the funding page, and "There's no cost for deposits or withdrawals performed via ACH" in that page's bank-transfer FAQ (answer to "Do you charge for ACH transfers?"). Where a bank is linked through Plaid, up to 10,000 USD of an ACH deposit is applied to buying power immediately, limited to one instant buying-power deposit per day; that is why the processing time is recorded as instant. Recurring weekly, bi-weekly or monthly deposits can be set up. Constraints from the help-centre article "Link a Domestic Bank Account via ACH": only U.S.-based checking accounts can be linked, savings accounts and non-U.S. banks cannot, and brokerage-to-brokerage ACH links are not supported; only one ACH relationship per account at a time; no third-party funding, and the name on the bank account must match the tastytrade account exactly; an entity account must link a business bank account held in the entity's name. IRAs must be funded through my.tastytrade.com rather than the mobile app. No per-channel minimum or maximum is published. The broker's complete Commissions and Fees schedule is published only as a PDF and is not covered here, so the zero fees above rest on the two plain statements on the funding and help-centre pages.
Free
Free
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Instant
Wire TransferWire TransferDeposits: the broker states "We don't charge an incoming fee for wire transfers" on its funding page. Most wires sent from U.S. banks are deposited the next business day; wires from foreign banks or financial institutions can take 3 to 5 business days to post, which is why the recorded processing time of 1 day is the domestic headline rather than the ceiling. Wires are credited to buying power on the date of deposit and appear in account balances the next day. Published beneficiary details: BMO Harris Bank, 111 West Monroe Street, Chicago IL 60603; ABA routing 071000288; SWIFT HATRUS44 for non-domestic wires; beneficiary "tastytrade via Apex Clearing", 350 N. St. Paul Street Suite 1300, Dallas TX 75201. Withdrawals, from the help-centre "Wire Withdrawal FAQ": a 25 USD fee applies to all outbound domestic wire withdrawals, and the article's returned-wire answer gives the processing fee as 25 USD domestic and 45 USD international, so the 45 USD international figure is not held in the fee field above. Domestic wire withdrawals typically take 1 business day to be received and international 2 to 5 business days. A returned wire's processing fee is not refunded; a recall or trace costs 30 USD, the clearing firm charges 30 USD for a returned transfer, and a transfer returned because the receiving bank cannot accept USD costs 30 USD. All funding must be in USD, the broker provides no currency conversion, and funds cannot come from a third party. Intermediary bank fees can reduce the amount received on a wire deposit. International clients may wire from currency services such as Wise, Revolut, OzForex (OFX), Remessa and Nomad, but the transfer must be sent as a wire; such an account cannot be linked, and non-wire transfers may be rejected and returned.
Free
USD 25
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—Not recorded/—Not recorded
Up to 1 day
Account Transfer (ACATS)OtherTransfer of an existing brokerage account in from another firm via ACATS, in full or in part. The broker charges no incoming ACATS fee, and states that the transferring firm may charge an outgoing one. Where the other broker does charge, tastytrade reimburses up to 75 USD for each minimum transfer of 2,000 USD; the reimbursement is requested from support and is credited within two weeks. Typical duration is 7 to 10 business days. Individual and IRA accounts can be transferred online; joint, entity and Fidelity accounts require a paper ACATS form. A full transfer sweeps any residual cash automatically in later scheduled sweeps. Traditional and Roth IRAs are supported, started from Manage, My Money, Account Transfer. For brokers that do not support ACATS, including international brokerages and most stock plans, the help centre's "Brokerage Transfers (ACATS)" folder gives DTC Free Delivery out of tastytrade at 25 USD per symbol and DTC Free Receive in; that is a different mechanism from ACATS and its charge is not held in the fee fields above. tastytrade's own outgoing ACATS fee could not be confirmed, so the withdrawal fee is left unrecorded rather than written as zero.
Free
—Not recorded
—Not recorded
—Not recorded/—Not recorded
Up to 10 days
ChecksOtherPaper check sent by post, classified as other because it is neither an electronic bank transfer nor a wire. Deposited funds are usually available four business days after they are posted to the account. The check is made payable to tastytrade with the account number on the memo line, and mailed to tastytrade, Inc., Attn: Account Services, 1330 W. Fulton St. Suite 600, Chicago, IL 60607. For rollover IRAs the check is made payable to "Apex Clearing FBO" the account holder's name instead. The broker answers "Is there a minimum deposit by check?" with "We don't have minimum deposits for funding accounts", so no per-channel minimum is recorded. Withdrawal by check is offered from Manage, My Money, Withdrawals, By Check, but only to customers in the U.S., and costs 5 USD per check. No deposit fee could be confirmed, so the deposit fee is left unrecorded rather than written as zero.
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USD 5
—Not recorded
—Not recorded/—Not recorded
Up to 4 days
StablecoinCryptocurrencyDEPOSIT ONLY at present. The broker accepts USDC, USDT, PYUSD and RLUSD tokens from a digital wallet, from 1 USD upward, and describes funding as taking moments, which is why the processing time is recorded as instant. The account must have crypto trading enabled, and the broker states the tokens are accepted "when funding an individual account". The row is kept supported because deposits are live, but the disclosure on the same page is explicit that "Stablecoin withdrawals will be available soon, but are not currently supported", so money cannot be taken out by this route and another method must be used; there is no per-direction flag to carry that, hence this note. The wallet address must match the asset being sent and transfers to a wrong address are irreversible. Cryptocurrency trading and custody are provided by Zero Hash Liquidity Services LLC and Zero Hash LLC respectively, not by tastytrade, and are neither FDIC insured nor SIPC protected. No deposit or withdrawal fee is published for this route, so both are left unrecorded rather than written as zero. The broker's international accounts page confirms stablecoin deposit as one of the routes available to international clients.
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USD 1
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Instant
Websites
Global Domains
3 domains on record. All active and served over HTTPS.
3 domains
tastytrade.comMain siteActiveHTTPS
my.tastytrade.comClient portalActiveHTTPS
tastyworks.comBackupActiveHTTPS
Social channels
Social Presence
4 official channels on record.
4 channels
Legal entities
Corporate Network
3 legal entities behind the tastytrade brand.
3 entities
tastytrade, Inc.ActiveLicence holderUnited States·Registration 6531075·Established Nov 30, 2022Holds FINRANFA
tastytrade Australia Pty LtdActiveLicence holderAustralia·Registration ABN 61 623 542 969Holds ASICNamed on the broker's Australian disclosures as the entity authorised under Australian financial services law to provide the brand's services in Australia, and as a wholly owned subsidiary of tastylive, Inc.
tastylive, IncActiveUnited StatesNamed on the broker's Australian disclosures as the parent company that wholly owns tastytrade Australia Pty Ltd, described there as a Delaware C-Corporation located in Chicago, Illinois.
Company registry check
Checked
Company Registration
The operating company is tastytrade, Inc.. Registered in United States. Registration number 6531075.
A cash account trades only with settled cash and has no funding or balance requirement. A margin account requires a day-end balance of 2,000 US dollars or more before margin privileges apply, and then gives stock buying power at 2 to 1 against options buying power. Margin also unlocks strategies a cash account cannot run, such as short selling and uncovered options, subject to the permission level granted. The firm notes that the Pattern Day Trader rule was eliminated as of 4 June 2026.
Yes. USDC, USDT, PYUSD and RLUSD can be sent from a digital wallet, from 1 US dollar upward, into an individual account with crypto trading enabled. Withdrawals by stablecoin are not supported at present, so money arriving this way has to be taken out by another method. Cryptocurrency trading and custody are provided by Zero Hash Liquidity Services LLC and Zero Hash LLC rather than by tastytrade, and carry neither FDIC nor SIPC coverage.
It depends on the product. Securities held in a tastytrade brokerage account are covered by SIPC up to 500,000 US dollars, including 250,000 dollars in cash. Futures and event-contract accounts carry no SIPC protection; those balances are segregated by Apex Clearing Corporation under CFTC rules. Cryptocurrency is held by Zero Hash LLC rather than by tastytrade and is covered by neither FDIC nor SIPC insurance.
By phone on 1-888-247-1963 toll-free, or +1-312-724-7075 from outside the United States, Monday to Thursday from 7:00 to 17:00 US Central time and Friday from 7:00 to 16:00. There is a live chat on the site that opens with a chatbot and can be escalated to a person, and a searchable help centre at . Email is split across seven departments, including separate accounts, banking, trade desk and technical addresses. Questions arising in the overnight futures session are handled by email only, and the firm does not accept orders by email at all.
Stocks, ETFs and fractional shares, stock and broad-based index options, E-mini, micro E-mini and E-nano futures, options on futures, event contracts, cryptocurrency and currency pairs. Access depends on the trading permissions granted to the account: buying stock, buying options and selling covered calls are available at every permission level, while short selling, uncovered calls and futures require the highest level. Defined-risk option spreads and uncovered puts sit on the top two levels.
Six: Individual, Retirement, Joint, Business and Trust, International, and Hedge Funds. These are United States brokerage structures rather than graded trading tiers, so none of them carries its own minimum deposit or its own commission schedule. Retirement covers Traditional, Roth, SEP and inherited IRAs, and an Individual or Joint account can be opened as either cash or margin.
Yes, through a dedicated International account for residents of eligible countries. International clients are limited to individual cash, individual margin and joint accounts, and the firm states that it does not support international entity accounts. They can fund by bank, account or wire transfer, by check or by stablecoin deposit, in US dollars only. A withdrawal by check, however, is offered to United States customers only.
No. Across the firm's funding pages the only routes offered are ACH bank transfer, wire transfer, ACATS account transfer, paper check and stablecoin deposit, and no card or e-wallet option appears anywhere. All funding must also be in US dollars, as the firm provides no currency conversion. Third-party funding is not accepted in either direction, and the name on the external account has to match the brokerage account exactly.
An ACH withdrawal to a linked US bank account is free. A domestic wire costs 25 US dollars and typically arrives in one business day; an international wire costs 45 dollars and takes two to five business days. A withdrawal by check costs 5 dollars and is available to United States customers only. Stablecoin cannot be used for withdrawals at present, so funds deposited that way have to leave by another route.
tastytrade runs only its own software, so there is no MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 or cTrader. It offers a desktop application, currently Desktop 2.0 for macOS, Windows and Linux, a browser platform reached by signing in at my.tastytrade.com, and a mobile app for iOS, iPad and Android. There is also a publicly documented open API with a testing sandbox, which carries order entry as well as market data for equities, options, futures and crypto.
Stocks, ETFs and fractional shares are free to open and to close. Stock and ETF options cost 1 US dollar per contract to open, capped at 10 dollars per leg, and nothing to close, and broad-based index options are priced the same way. E-mini futures cost 1 dollar per contract each way, micro E-mini and E-nano futures 0.75 dollars, options on E-mini futures 1.25 dollars and options on the micro contracts 0.75 dollars. Cryptocurrency is charged at 1 per cent of the total to open and to close, falling to 0.75 per cent for Bitcoin and Ethereum, and exchange, clearing and regulatory fees are added to everything except crypto orders.
There is none. The firm states that there are no account minimums to open an account and no minimum deposit for funding one, and that this applies to both domestic and international customers. The one balance threshold that matters is margin: stock buying power at 2 to 1 requires a day-end balance of 2,000 US dollars or more. A cash account has no funding or balance requirement at all.
A standard margin account at tastytrade offers 2 to 1 against the cash balance, and margin privileges require a day-end balance of 2,000 US dollars or more. Portfolio margin, a separate risk-based methodology that requires approval, raises that to roughly 6.7 to 1. Cash accounts trade with settled cash only and carry no leverage. These are United States margin rules rather than the much higher multipliers advertised by offshore currency brokers.
tastytrade offers five funding channels and no others: ACH bank transfer, wire transfer, an incoming brokerage account transfer by ACATS, paper check, and stablecoin deposits. There are no debit or credit card options and no e-wallets. Speeds vary a great deal: ACH can credit buying power immediately where the bank is linked through Plaid, a domestic wire takes about one business day, a check about four, and an ACATS transfer 7 to 10 business days. Stablecoin is a deposit route only at present, as the firm states that stablecoin withdrawals are not yet supported.
Yes. tastytrade, Inc. is a registered United States broker-dealer and FINRA member under CRD 277027 and SEC number 8-69649, and a CFTC-registered Introducing Broker and NFA member under NFA ID 0492333; both registrations were confirmed on the authorities' own registers on 4 August 2026. Securities accounts carry SIPC cover up to 500,000 US dollars, including 250,000 dollars in cash, and disputes can go to FINRA arbitration. Safety is not uniform across products, though: futures and event-contract balances are not SIPC-protected and are segregated by Apex Clearing Corporation instead, and cryptocurrency is custodied by Zero Hash LLC with neither FDIC nor SIPC coverage. The firm's FINRA record also carries three regulatory disclosures.
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