X launches Cashtag trading feature

X now lets US users trade stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies directly from their timelines through Cashtags, with support from Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase.

Cashtags evolved from conversation tracker

Stocktwits created Cashtags in 2008 for Twitter as a way to track stock conversations using dollar signs before ticker symbols. Now X has transformed them into actual trading tools.

How the trading flow works

Users tap a Cashtag to see price charts and related posts, then select Trade to connect with a brokerage partner where they sign in and complete their transaction.

X Money powers the integration

X's financial services division, X Money, enables the seamless connection between social conversation and brokerage trading, letting users move from discovery to action without leaving the platform.

Closing the gap between talk and trade

Mridul Singhai, X's Product Engineering lead, said Cashtags connect timelines directly to markets, giving users live charts, conversation context, and trading capability in one place.

“Cashtags close the gap between a ticker on the timeline and the market itself.”

Manipulation risks remain unaddressed

The feature could enable AI bots, spammers, and bad actors to manipulate market conversations and influence trading decisions, though such activity already occurs on X without direct broker links.