Leverate Lets Brokers' Clients Place Trades by Chatting With ChatGPT or Claude

Leverate has launched a tool that lets traders at brokers running its platform place orders through AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude, with every order reaching the market only after the trader approves it inside the chat. The product, called MCP for Traders, connects an assistant to a single live trading account and is offered as a setting that Leverate's broker and prop firm clients can switch on for their own traders. It ships turned off.

The release follows the Model Context Protocol server Leverate published in July, which gave AI assistants access to brokers' CRM and risk data but left trade execution out of scope. The company said versions of the new connector for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 are still to come.

An industry-wide push into AI agents

Trading software vendors and brokers have spent 2026 opening client accounts to AI agents. An FM Intelligence study counted at least 10 firms doing so in the first half of the year, with Anthropic's Claude named in nine. Spotware Systems opened cTrader to AI agents in May through two MCP servers, while MetaQuotes added native AI agents and MCP support to a MetaTrader 5 beta on 16 July. ThinkMarkets launched ChelseaAI in June, an MCP server that can execute orders but cannot reach client funds, and TradingView's new beta MCP server documents tools that stop short of broker balances, positions and orders.

To connect, a trader copies a prompt or configuration from the AI Connector section of the platform's settings into the assistant, granting access to that account alone through a token the trader controls. Leverate said 15 tools sit behind the connection: 10 for reading account and market data and five for placing and managing orders. Before anything is sent, the assistant repeats the instrument, direction, size, order type, price, stops and margin impact, then waits for confirmation in the trader's own AI app. It is also instructed to decline requests for advice, recommendations or predictions.

Brokers enable the feature per brand in the Leverate Broker Portal and can restrict it by client group, trading terms, country or a manual allowlist. Assistant orders are logged in Leverate's CRM with their own source flag, and on prop accounts they pass through the same risk engine as other orders, respecting challenge rules and daily-loss limits.

Ran Strauss, Leverate's chief executive and co-founder, said most traders at brokers already use AI, and that the question was "whether they would use it on the broker's own platform or somewhere else entirely." Leverate pointed to an April Investing.com poll in which 62% of 938 US investors said they had used AI tools for investment decisions, while 39% worried about incorrect or misleading recommendations. Bank of England Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said in June that human-in-the-loop checks are unrealistic at the speed of agentic trading, with kill switches and circuit breakers among the alternatives under discussion. Leverate, which added a chat assistant to its platform in June, said it plans to publish usage figures from the first connected accounts in the coming months.