Overview

Details about how to obtain access tokens using OAuth 2.0

Fetch positions, balances and other account related details.

Place equity and complex option trades including advanced orders.

Fetch quotes, chains and historical data via REST and streaming APIs.

Stream market data and account events in real-time.

Create and update custom watchlists.

Examples, response types, property details and explanations.

Add symbols

  • Available in Paper Trading
  • Available in Production
  • Available to Advisors
  • Supported

Add symbols to an existing watchlist. If the symbol exists, it will be over-written.

POST

Headers

Header Required Values/Example Default
Accept Optional application/xml, application/json application/xml
Content-Type Required application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Authorization Required Bearer {token}

Parameters

Parameter Type Param Type Required Values/Example Default
watchlist_id Path String Required my_watchlist
A watchlist id
symbols Form String Required AAPL,IBM,NFLX,SPY
Comma-delimited list of symbols to add to watchlist

Code Example

If you're developing using a paper trading account, change the hostname to https://sandbox.tradier.com
curl -X POST "https://api.tradier.com/v1/watchlists/{watchlist_id}/symbols" \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>' \
     -H 'Accept: application/json' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
     -d 'symbols=AAPL,IBM,NFLX,SPY'
// Version 1.8.0_31    
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.RequestBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import java.io.IOException;

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    final HttpUriRequest request = RequestBuilder
        .post("https://api.tradier.com/v1/watchlists/{watchlist_id}/symbols")
        .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <TOKEN>")
        .addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
        .addParameter("watchlist_id", "my_watchlist")
        .addParameter("symbols", "AAPL,IBM,NFLX,SPY")
        .build();

    final HttpResponse response = HttpClientBuilder.create().build().execute(request);
    final String jsonString = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
    final JsonNode json = new ObjectMapper().readTree(jsonString);
    
    System.out.println(response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
    System.out.println(json);
  }
}
# Version 2.5.0p0    
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.tradier.com/v1/watchlists/{watchlist_id}/symbols")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <TOKEN>'
request["Accept"] = 'application/json'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
request.body = "symbols=AAPL,IBM,NFLX,SPY"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.code
puts response.read_body
// Version go1.12      
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "net/url"
    "io/ioutil"
    "log"
    "strconv"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    apiUrl := "https://api.tradier.com/v1/watchlists/{watchlist_id}/symbols"
    data := url.Values{} 
    data.Set("symbols", "AAPL,IBM,NFLX,SPY")

    u, _ := url.ParseRequestURI(apiUrl)
    urlStr := u.String()

    client := &http.Client{}
    r, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", urlStr, strings.NewReader(data.Encode()))
    r.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <TOKEN>")
    r.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
    r.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
    r.Header.Add("Content-Length", strconv.Itoa(len(data.Encode())))

    resp, _ := client.Do(r)
    responseData, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)

    if err != nil {
      log.Fatal(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(resp.Status)
    fmt.Println(string(responseData))
}
// Version 4.6.2.0    
using System;
using System.Net;  
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

public class MainClass {
  public static void Main (string[] args) {
    var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://api.tradier.com/v1/watchlists/{watchlist_id}/symbols");
    var requestData = "symbols=AAPL,IBM,NFLX,SPY";
    var data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(requestData);
    
    request.Method = "POST";
    request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Bearer <TOKEN>";
    request.Accept = "application/json";
    request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
    request.ContentLength = data.Length;

    using (var stream = request.GetRequestStream())
     {
         stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
     }

    var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

    Console.WriteLine (response.StatusCode);
    var responseString = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
    Console.WriteLine (responseString);
  }
}
// Version 10.15.2    
const request = require('request');

request({
    method: 'post',
    url: 'https://api.tradier.com/v1/watchlists/{watchlist_id}/symbols',
    form: {
       'symbols': 'AAPL,IBM,NFLX,SPY'
    },
    headers: {
      'Authorization': 'Bearer <TOKEN>',
      'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
  }, (error, response, body) => {
      console.log(response.statusCode);
      console.log(body);
  });
# Version 3.6.1    
import requests

response = requests.post('https://api.tradier.com/v1/watchlists/{watchlist_id}/symbols',
    data={'symbols': 'AAPL,IBM,NFLX,SPY'},
    headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer <TOKEN>', 'Accept': 'application/json'}
)
json_response = response.json()
print(response.status_code)
print(json_response)
<?php
// Version 7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.tradier.com/v1/watchlists/{watchlist_id}/symbols');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'symbols=AAPL,IBM,NFLX,SPY');

$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>';
$headers[] = 'Accept: application/json';
$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close ($ch);
echo $http_code;
echo $result;

Response

Response Definition

{
   "watchlist":{
      "name":"My Watchlist",
      "id":"my_watchlist",
      "public_id":"public-6f8f625wti",
      "items":{
         "item":[
            {
               "symbol":"AAPL",
               "id":"aapl"
            },
            {
               "symbol":"IBM",
               "id":"ibm"
            },
            {
               "symbol":"NFLX",
               "id":"nflx"
            },
            {
               "symbol":"SPY",
               "id":"spy"
            }
         ]
      }
   }
}