# ThinkMarkets API options Independent and unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any broker or platform named here. Educational only: nothing here is advice, and nothing here recommends a broker or a trade. This is the markdown version of https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/thinkmarkets, written from the same records as that page. Risk warning: CFDs and spread bets are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You can lose money on these products, and each provider publishes its own loss figure under FCA rules. You should consider whether you understand how they work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Automated and API trading can amplify losses through bugs, connectivity failures and runaway orders. Spread betting and CFDs on ThinkTrader, MT4 and MT5. Unverified: The statement about access this rests on could not be confirmed at its source. - Kind: Platform APIs only - Newest reading: 2026-10-05 - Official documentation: [support.thinkmarkets.com](https://support.thinkmarkets.com/hc/en-gb/articles/11613215353745-Spread-betting-account) - Everything recorded for ThinkMarkets, as one JSON file: https://openbrokerapi.com/data/brokers/thinkmarkets.json ## Access, authentication and streaming - How you get a key: Unverified. ThinkMarkets' site and its support centre answered 403 Forbidden to automated reading on 12 Oct 2026 (the UK home page, the institutional page and the spread betting help article), so no ThinkMarkets page was opened and nothing could be confirmed either way. Carried over from the prototype and not confirmed: no API of ThinkMarkets' own for retail clients, with automation through MetaTrader. The MCP register on this site holds a ThinkMarkets server read from a press interview, not from ThinkMarkets' own pages. - Status: unverified. Source: [ThinkMarkets UK (did not open on 12 Oct 2026)](https://www.thinkmarkets.com/uk/), checked 2026-09-21. - Demo: Unverified. The UK site showed a Try demo button and a Demo Account option when read on 21 Sep 2026, which is a platform demo and says nothing about an API. The site answered 403 Forbidden on 12 Oct 2026, so it could not be read again. - Status: unverified. Source: [ThinkMarkets UK (did not open on 12 Oct 2026)](https://www.thinkmarkets.com/uk/), checked 2026-09-21. - Rate limits, as worded: No retail API. Institutional page offers API solutions through vendors with no protocol, documentation or limit stated (read 22 Sep 2026). - Status: verified. Source: [ThinkMarkets institutional sales](https://www.thinkmarkets.com/en/institutional-sales/), checked 2026-09-22. ## Platform APIs an account here can reach - [MetaTrader 4 (MQL4)](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-4): offered. Support article: spread betting is available on ThinkTrader, MT4 and MT5 for UK residents. - Status: verified. Source: [ThinkMarkets support: Spread betting account](https://support.thinkmarkets.com/hc/en-gb/articles/11613215353745-Spread-betting-account), checked 2026-09-18. - [MetaTrader 5 (Python package and MQL5)](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/metatrader-5): offered. Support article: spread betting is available on ThinkTrader, MT4 and MT5 for UK residents, so MT5 is offered to UK clients. - Status: verified. Source: [ThinkMarkets support: Spread betting account](https://support.thinkmarkets.com/hc/en-gb/articles/11613215353745-Spread-betting-account), checked 2026-09-18. - [cTrader Open API](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/ctrader): not offered. cTrader not listed on the broker's UK platforms page; absence from an overview page is not proof, so unverified. - Status: unverified. Source: [ThinkMarkets site](https://www.thinkmarkets.com/uk/), checked 2026-09-18. - [TradeLocker API](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/tradelocker): not offered. TradeLocker not listed on the broker's UK platforms page; absence from an overview page is not proof, so unverified. - Status: unverified. Source: [ThinkMarkets site](https://www.thinkmarkets.com/uk/), checked 2026-09-18. - [Match-Trader Platform API](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/match-trader): not offered. Match-Trader not listed on the broker's UK platforms page; absence from an overview page is not proof, so unverified. - Status: unverified. Source: [ThinkMarkets site](https://www.thinkmarkets.com/uk/), checked 2026-09-18. - [DXtrade APIs](https://openbrokerapi.com/platforms/dxtrade): not offered. DXtrade not listed on the broker's UK platforms page; absence from an overview page is not proof, so unverified. - Status: unverified. Source: [ThinkMarkets site](https://www.thinkmarkets.com/uk/), checked 2026-09-18. ## ThinkMarkets API: questions and answers ### Does ThinkMarkets have an API? Unverified. No API of its own is recorded for ThinkMarkets on this register. Platform APIs recorded as offered: MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5. The statement this rests on is not verified at its source. - Status: unverified. No source opened. ### ThinkMarkets API demo: is there a demo or sandbox? Unverified. The UK site showed a Try demo button and a Demo Account option when read on 21 Sep 2026, which is a platform demo and says nothing about an API. The site answered 403 Forbidden on 12 Oct 2026, so it could not be read again. - Status: unverified. Source: [ThinkMarkets UK (did not open on 12 Oct 2026)](https://www.thinkmarkets.com/uk/), checked 2026-09-21. ### What are the ThinkMarkets API rate limits? No retail API. Institutional page offers API solutions through vendors with no protocol, documentation or limit stated (read 22 Sep 2026). - Status: verified. Source: [ThinkMarkets institutional sales](https://www.thinkmarkets.com/en/institutional-sales/), checked 2026-09-22. ### Which platform APIs work with an account at ThinkMarkets? Recorded as offered, with a source: MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5. Not verified either way: cTrader, TradeLocker, Match-Trader and DXtrade. - Status: verified. Source: [ThinkMarkets support: Spread betting account](https://support.thinkmarkets.com/hc/en-gb/articles/11613215353745-Spread-betting-account), checked 2026-09-18. [ThinkMarkets API questions, each answered in a sentence or two](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/thinkmarkets). ## Partner programme Not verified. No programme page could be opened at the last check, 2026-10-05, which is not evidence that no programme exists. [The ThinkMarkets partner programme record](https://openbrokerapi.com/partners/thinkmarkets). This site carries no affiliate links. ## Licence and how to cite The limit records on this page come from the limits register, which is CC BY 4.0 (https://openbrokerapi.com/data/limits.json). Everything else on it comes from records that are all rights reserved. This file is the page itself, at its own address, in another format, and it is not part of the CC BY 4.0 downloads listed at https://openbrokerapi.com/data. Cite as: ThinkMarkets API options. Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/thinkmarkets, newest check 2026-10-05. Where you rely on a single figure, cite the source and the checked date printed beside it as well. Where this page and a broker's own documentation differ, the documentation wins.