tastytrade: US SEC licence 8-69649

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 support.tastytrade.com. 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.