cTrader Launches CLI Tool to Let Traders Run AI Apps Without the Platform’s Interface | LeapRate

Spotware Systems, the technology provider behind the cTrader trading platform, has launched cTrader CLI, a standalone command-line application that allows traders to connect popular AI tools directly to cTrader and manage their trading activity using natural-language commands, without ever opening the graphical interface.

Running locally on a trader’s own computer, cTrader CLI supports a wide range of functions including live trading, cBot execution, backtesting, strategy optimisation, and access to market and account data. The tool is designed for professional algo traders looking to integrate AI more deeply into their daily workflows, enabling them to hand off repetitive tasks to AI agents that operate in the background.

Through cTrader CLI, AI applications such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf and Gemini CLI can retrieve pricing and historical data, review trading history and exposure, manage orders and positions, set alerts, and run cBots and backtests via natural-language instructions.

Spotware notes that cTrader CLI is intended to complement, rather than replace, its existing MCP servers, with the CLI aimed at lightweight, command-line automation while MCP servers cater to AI agents needing direct, UI-based interaction with the platform.

The launch also strengthens cTrader’s algo trading capabilities, letting users test and optimise cBots and monitor strategies independently of the main application interface.

Commenting on the release, Sergey Borisov, Head of Product Development at Spotware, said the launch reflects rising trader demand for algo and AI-assisted functionality, adding that cTrader CLI “gives advanced traders the freedom to use AI to run and automate their trading without a graphical interface.”

cTrader serves more than 11 million traders and 300-plus brokers and prop firms globally.