Is it safe to connect my brokerage account to a trading platform?

The right questions: What permissions does the connection carry? (It should be trade and read only — never withdrawals or transfers.) Can you revoke it instantly? (Broker-side and platform-side.) What stands between a malfunctioning strategy and your account? (Look for per-order price bands, notional caps, dry-run rehearsal, and a kill switch that pauses everything.) Does live trading require explicit confirmation, or can a misclick deploy real money? A platform that answers all four well — scoped permissions, instant disconnect, order-level guardrails, and typed confirmation before any real-money trading — has bounded the realistic damage to what a bad strategy could lose trading, which is the same risk you'd carry trading it by hand.