# Overview URL: https://docs.fxapis.com/ > Documentation for fxapis, the hosted MetaTrader 5 REST API: connect MT5 accounts, place and manage orders, trade many accounts at once, and read history. Guides and a full API reference. fxapis lets your product trade MetaTrader 5 accounts through a simple REST API. Connect an account with its login and server, place and manage trades, act on up to 1,000 accounts in one call, and get a recorded result for every order — an unclear one is confirmed with the broker, not guessed — with nothing to host, install or keep running. These docs take you from an API key to a filled trade in about five minutes, then cover everything you need to run it in production. From an API key to a filled order, in about five minutes. Let members take a signal with one click, from their own accounts. TypeScript and Python SDKs, runnable examples and a Next.js starter — open source on GitHub. Complete programs in seven languages, trade copiers, multi-account orders, and more. Market and pending orders, closes, stop changes, multi-account orders. Every endpoint, with examples in 13 languages — and a console to try each one. ## The shape of it [#the-shape-of-it] ``` https://api.fxapis.com/v1/… Authorization: Bearer fx_live_… ``` Every request carries an API key. Responses are JSON with the payload under `data`; every failure has the same shape and a stable `code` — see [Errors](/errors). Orders take an `Idempotency-Key`, so a retry with the same key can never place a second trade. fxapis is infrastructure. It generates no signals, holds no opinion about the market, and gives no advice — it executes what it is told. Trading a live account through any API can lose money quickly, and nothing here replaces your own risk controls.