Trade

CHANNEL
wss://ws.kraken.com
trade

Trade feed for a currency pair.

Subscription Request

Request Schema

MESSAGE BODY

event string required

Value: subscribe

pair array of strings required

Example: ["BTC/USD", "MATIC/GBP"]

The currency pairs for this request.

subscription object

name string required

Value: trade

reqid string

Optional client originated request identifier sent as acknowledgment in the response.

Example

{
  "event": "subscribe",
  "pair": [
    "XBT/EUR"
  ],
  "subscription": {
    "name": "trade"
  }
}

Subscription Snapshot and Update Response

Response Schema

MESSAGE BODY

array [

[0] channel_id integer deprecated

Deprecated Usage: Use 'channel_name' and 'pair'.

Channel identifier.

[1] trades array [

A list of trades.

[many] trade array [

[0] price string

Price.

[1] volume string

Volume.

[2] time string

Time, seconds since epoch.

[3] side string

Possible values: [buy, sell]

Taker side.

[4] order_type string

Possible values: [market, limit]

Taker order type.

[5] misc string

Miscellaneous.

]

]

[2] pair string

Example: "BTC/USD"

The symbol of the currency pair.

[3] channel_name string

Value: trade

The name of the channel.

]

Example

[
  0,
  [
    [
      "5541.20000",
      "0.15850568",
      "1534614057.321597",
      "s",
      "l",
      ""
    ],
    [
      "6060.00000",
      "0.02455000",
      "1534614057.324998",
      "b",
      "l",
      ""
    ]
  ],
  "trade",
  "XBT/USD"
]