rateLimits:
  - name: No Official API Rate Limits Published
    description: >-
      Firstrade does not publish an official public REST API and therefore
      does not publicly document API rate limits. All programmatic access to
      Firstrade account data runs through the Plaid financial data aggregation
      platform, which enforces its own rate limits per developer account tier.
      Plaid's rate limits vary by product and pricing plan and are documented
      in Plaid's developer documentation.
    url: https://plaid.com/docs/api/
  - name: Plaid Rate Limits (applicable when accessing Firstrade via Plaid)
    description: >-
      When accessing Firstrade data through Plaid, the applicable rate limits
      are those of the Plaid API. Plaid enforces per-endpoint rate limits that
      scale with developer plan tier (Launch, Scale, Enterprise). Specific
      numeric limits (requests per minute or per day) are tier-dependent and
      detailed in Plaid's official rate-limiting documentation. Developers on
      the Launch plan face lower thresholds; Scale and Enterprise plans provide
      higher throughput. Plaid may impose additional throttling on investment
      data endpoints due to data freshness and reconciliation windows.
    url: https://plaid.com/docs/errors/rate-limit-exceeded/
notes: >-
  Firstrade's web and mobile platforms use session-based authentication
  with no publicly documented rate limits for end-users. Unofficial community
  SDKs that reverse-engineer the Firstrade web session may encounter
  undisclosed server-side throttling. Firstrade has not published any
  documentation on automated access policies. Contact Firstrade support
  at 1-800-869-8800 for institutional or automated access enquiries.