Submitting a buy order not working

[carsonpo]

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OS:      MacOS Sierra 
Python:   3.6
krakenex:  current

What are you trying to achieve?

Submit a buy/sell order. I am using the extension to this API pykrakenapi

Here is that API's way of submitting an order:

def add_standard_order(self, pair, type, ordertype, volume, price=None,
                           price2=None, leverage=None, oflags=None, starttm=0,
                           expiretm=0, userref=None, validate=True,
                           close_ordertype=None, close_price=None,
                           close_price2=None, otp=None,
                           trading_agreement='agree'):

        # create data dictionary
        if validate is False:
            validate = None
        data = {arg: value for arg, value in locals().items() if
                arg != 'self' and value is not None}

        # query
        res = self.api.query_private('AddOrder', data=data)

        # check for error
        if len(res['error']) > 0:
            raise KrakenAPIError(res['error'])

        return res['result']

and when I run this in my program:

buy = k.add_standard_order("XXBTZUSD", "buy", "market", 0.002)

print(buy)

it prints: {'descr': {'order': 'buy 0.00200000 XBTUSD @ market'}}

What do you expect to happen?

I would expect it to submit an order to my account

What happens instead?

My account never reflects that an order was submitted at all

I feel like there is something really simple that I should be doing, but I've been working on trying to fix this for several hours now and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do.

Thanks for all the help!

[veox]

With just krakenex, placing an order like this:

response = kraken.query_private('AddOrder', {'pair': 'XXBTZEUR', 'type': 'buy', 'ordertype': 'market', 'volume': : '0.002'})

Results in a response:

{'error': [],
 'result': {'descr': {'order': 'buy 0.00200000 XBTEUR @ market'},
  'txid': ['TRANSA-CTION-IDHERE']}}

And an appropriate balance change, along with entries on the "Trades" tab, and two entries in the ledger (on the "Overview" tab).

Try making volume a str, i.e. '0.002' instead of 0.002. (In general, though, either should work.)

EDIT: Also, this shows the txid, which pykrakenapi omits.

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In either case, this looks like a pykrakenapi issue, so best report there.

Since an external package is involved, and it works as expected on this end, tagging as invalid.

[skapin]

@carsonpo I don't know if you have found the solution of your probleme. If you do, you could have post here.

Otherwise, you order failed because, as written in the API, you have to put the flag validate to False to submit the order. Otherwise, it's only a check

    validate : bool, optional (default=True)

        Validate inputs only.  Do not submit order (default).

[goodboy]

So I'm curious, can validate=True be used as a form of paper trading or does kraken not fake fills on their end?

Is this just purely for validating the AddOrder request i guess?

[jonnymaserati]

It just validates that the payload is valid, it doesn’t give any market data.

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