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Connect an AI to TurningTrade: the API key and the MCP server

What an application programming interface is, what the Model Context Protocol is, and what a connected agent can do with your charts, tool by tool. Two paths, one terminal: the API key turns on ALFRED inside the platform, the MCP server hands the platform’s controls to Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Neither one is a trading bot.

What “connecting an AI” means

What an API is, exactly

What MCP is, exactly

The two paths, side by side

When to use which

The API path: ALFRED inside the platform

Capabilities are checked one by one

The MCP path: a wire, not a second ALFRED

The token is created in the platform

The same hands

What a connected AI can do

What stays on your machine

What it is not

Going further

Responsibility