Get Account's History

Get transaction history for a particular trading account

Overview

This endpoint enables you to retrieve the historical value of a particular trading account.

There are seven 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. Trading Account Number (path). This is the numeric ID of the trading account whose historical value you'd like to retrieve. You can get the list of a user's trading accounts with this API call.

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

5. startDate (query). This is the starting date from which the account value history will be retrieved.

6. endDate (query). This is the end date until which the account value history will be retrieved.

7. step (query). This is the number of items that must be retrieved.

The step parameter is currently ignored by the service. You can assign any value to it without affecting the content of the response.

This API request must be sent to the following URL:

apiURL/v1.0/accounts/accountNumber/history?startDate=2019-01-01T14:20:10.837Z&endDate=2019-02-08T14:20:10.837Z&step=5

Response

In response to this request, you'll receive a JSON file with the list of account valuation throughout the specified period.

[
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-14T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 1000000
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-15T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 1000000
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-16T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 1000000
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-17T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 1000000
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-18T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 1000000
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-22T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 999534.25
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-23T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 999598.75
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-24T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 999400.75
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-25T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 1000183.75
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-28T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 999850.75
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-29T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 1001035.75
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-30T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 1001328.25
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-01-31T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 1001530.75
    },
    {
        "Date": "2019-02-01T00:00:00Z",
        "Value": 1001488.75
    }
]

where:

Parameter	Description
Date	The precise date on the valuation
Value	The value of the account for the date

Common Mistakes

Here are some of the common mistakes that developers make when requesting the historical value of a particular trading account:

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"
}

Incorrect or Missing Query Parameters

If the query parameters are missing or incorrectly specified , the following error message will be returned:

{
    "Message": "No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI 'https://pub-api-et-demo-prod.etnasoft.us/api/v1.0/accounts/6303/history'."
}

In the following article we provide in-depth coverage of the syntax for this API request.