Get Equity Info by Ticker

Fetch information about a particular equity by providing its ticker symbol

Overview

This GET endpoint enables you to retrieve information about a particular security by specifying its ticker symbol in the request's path. This information is not retrieved directly from the exchange; rather, it's the information about the security that is specific to Autoshares Trader.

There are four required parameters that must be provided in the request:

1. Et-App-Key (header). This is the unique key of your app that identifies your app when communicating with our service. Contact your administrator to get this key.

2. Authorization (header). This is the authorization token from the very first token request.

3. API version (path). Unless necessary, leave it at "1.0".

4. Ticker symbol (path). This is the ticker symbol of the security (as displayed on the exchange) whose information you'd like to retrieve.

Here's the final template for this API request:

GET apiURL/v1.0/equities/AAPL //Apple Inc.

Response

In response to this API request, you'll receive a JSON file with all the information about the enquired security:

{
    "Id": 4,
    "Symbol": "AAPL",
    "Description": "Apple Inc.",
    "Exchange": "XNAS",
    "Currency": "USD",
    "AddedDate": "2012-11-29T16:05:43.993Z",
    "ModifyDate": "2018-12-10T08:00:22.2867686Z",
    "Type": "CommonStock",
    "Precision": 2,
    "VolumePrecision": 0,
    "TickSize": 0.01,
    "Enabled": true,
    "AllowTrade": true,
    "AllowMargin": true,
    "AllowShort": true
}

where:

Parameter	Description
Id	This is the internal ID of the security in Autoshares Trader.
Symbol	This is the ticker symbol under which the security is listed on the exchange.
Description	Usually this is the full name of the underlying company.
Exchange	This is the exchange on which the security is listed.
Currency	This is the currency in which the security is denominated.
AddedDate	This is the date on which the security was added to the database.
ModifyDate	This is the date in which the security's information was last modified.
Type	This is the type of the security.
Precision	This is the number of decimal places in the security's price.
VolumePrecision	This is the number of decimal places in the security's trading volume (might be useful for cryptocurrencies).
TickSize	This is the minimum price change of the security. For example, if this property equals 0.01 for AAPL, the minimum price change for AAPL is 0.01 (150.67 —> 150.68, but not 150.675). For securities with the market price of less than $1, the TickSize is equal to 0.0001.
Enabled	This field indicated if the security is enabled and can be traded by users.
AllowTrade	This field indicates is the security if permitted for trading.
AllowMargin	This field indicates if the security is allowed to be traded on margin.
AllowShort	This field indicates if the security can be sold short.

Common Mistakes

Here are some of the common mistakes that developers make when attempting to retrieve information about a particular security by its ticker.

Requesting as a Non-Administrator

One of the most common mistakes that developers make when making this API request is to use the authorization token of a non-administrator. It's critical to understand that in order to be eligible for retrieving information about a particular security, the requester must be an administrator. Otherwise you'll receive the 401 status code with the following message:

{
    "Message": "Authorization has been denied for this request."
}

So be sure to use the authorization token generated with an administrator's credentials.

Failing to Specify the Et-App-Key Parameter

If you specify the wrong Et-App-Key parameter or fail to include it in the header altogether, you'll get the following error:

{
    "error": "Application key is not defined or does not exist"
}

The following article covers the syntax for this API request in detail.