Trading API

The Trading API is the wire protocol your strategy speaks to the Trading Gateway. The same protocol covers all three Gateway modes — backtest, paper, and live — so strategy code stays identical as you promote from simulation to real markets.

Your strategy opens a WebSocket connection to :8080/v1/ws to receive market events (ticks, bars, fills, position updates) and uses REST endpoints at :8080/v1/* to place, modify, and cancel orders. See Concepts for the full architectural picture, including how the Gateway maps a single normalised order model onto each broker's native API.

Get started

1. Concepts — Unified protocol, execution modes, connection model
2. Connection — Authenticate and connect your strategy
3. Hello World — Your first strategy in 6 languages

Reference

• Types — Orders, Positions, Events, Instruments
• Messages — WebSocket, REST
• Examples — Placing Orders, Handling Events

The Trading API is implemented by the Trading Gateway. To run a Gateway, follow the setup guide.