Place an Order

API Description

This interface allows users to place spot trading orders by specifying the order type, quantity, price, and an external transaction number.

Note: Historical Orders is only available via RESTful API.

Precautions

1. For market orders, user can specify either "funds" or "amount".
2. For limit order, user need to specify "amount"

Authentication

This is a private interface and requires authentication. For details on using the RESTful API, refer to Common > Authentication & Code Snippet > Spot > RESTful Private Interface.

Request Method

POST

Endpoint

/api/v1/private?command=doTrade

Frequency Limit

The frequency limit for this interface is 30 requests/2s per user ID. In addition to this per-interface limit, a global rate limit is also enforced.

For detailed information on Global rate limits and API Rate Limiting Policy, please refer to the "Frequency Limit" section at click here

Request Parameters

Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
symbol	True	String	Trading instrument such as: BTC_USDT
type	True	String	Trade direction: 0: Buy order, 1: Sell order.
amount	False	String	Order size in base currency. Note: Mandatory for limit order.
rate	False	String	Order price specified by user (for Limit order only)
funds	False	String	Order size in quote currency. Note: Valid only for market orders.
isMarket	True	String	Order type: true: market order, false: limit order.
out_trade_no	True	String	A custom order ID assigned by the user. User need to make it unique to distinguish different orders Note: Maximum length: 50 characters; only latin characters, numbers, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are permitted.

Response Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
orderNumber	String	Order id

Request Example

The following Python code shows how to place limit order for BTC-USDT.

Note: For a complete code example, please refer to Common > Authentication & Code Snippet > Spot > Restful Private Interface.

api_url = "/api/v1/private?command=doTrade"
method = "post"
params = {
          "symbol": "BTC_USDT",
          "type": "0",
          "amount": "0.0001",
          "rate": "82000" ,
          # "funds" : 100,
          "isMarket" : "false",
          "out_trade_no" : "3-04-11-06"
         }
SpotRestfulPrivate(host, api_url, method, api_key, params, secret_key)  # function SpotRestfulPrivate() is defined in section (Common > Authentication & Code Snippet > Spot > RESTful Private Interface)

Note: For a complete Java code example, please refer to Common > Authentication & Code Snippet > Spot > RESTful Private Interface.

Response Example

The following is an example response returned by the above Python request:

{'code': '200',
 'data': {'orderNumber': 4624603081039753080},
 'msg': 'SUCCESS',
 'success': True,
 'failed': False}