Crypto Orders #
When submitting crypto orders through the Orders API and the Alpaca web dashboard, Market, Limit and Stop Limit orders are supported while the supported
time_in_force
values are gtc
, and ioc
. We accept fractional
orders as well with either notional
or qty
provided.
You can submit crypto orders for a any supported crypto pair via API, see the below cURL POST request.
curl --request POST 'https://paper-api.alpaca.markets/v2/orders' \
--header 'Apca-Api-Key-Id: <KEY>' \
--header 'Apca-Api-Secret-Key: <SECRET>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"symbol": "BTC/USD",
"qty": "0.0001",
"side": "buy",
"type": "market",
"time_in_force": "gtc"
}'
The above request submits a market order via API to buy 0.0001 BTC with USD (BTC/USD
pair) that is good till end of day.
Note We only supportgtc
andioc
time in force options for crypto orders.
To learn more see orders and fractional trading.
All cryptocurrency assets are fractionable but the supported decimal points vary depending on the cryptocurrency. See Assets entity for information on fractional precisions per asset.
Note these values could change in the future.