Tradovate API

Tradovate API: what building on it takes

People searching for the Tradovate API usually want to place orders from their own code, or stop placing them by hand. The API covers the first; the second takes a lot more work.

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Building on the Tradovate API, part by part

Tradovate offers a REST API for account and order operations and a WebSocket feed for real-time events. It's documented, and if you want your own execution layer or full control over order types, build on it. Some parts take an afternoon and some take a month.

Authenticate and place an orderRead the docs, get a token, POST an order. This is the afternoon.Easy

Hold a session that survivesTokens expire, sockets drop, and a revoked token retried forever is a silent outage.Hard

Resolve contracts correctlyFront months roll, so a hard-coded contract id breaks at expiry.Hard

Handle partial fillsOne order, several executions. Miss this and your position tracking drifts.Hard

De-duplicate retransmissionsBrokers resend. Without an execution-keyed guard, a resend becomes a second position.Hard

Run it at 3amWhatever holds the session has to be awake when you are not. This is where the VPS bill starts.Ongoing

Where the time goes

Placing an order is simple. The time goes into everything around it.

Session lifecycle: Tokens expire and get revoked; revocation needs its own state and a fresh sign-in
Contract resolution: Symbols aren't contract ids, and front months roll
Executions, not orders: Several execution reports per order; order-id keys miss or double-count partials
Connection churn: A reconnect that keeps the dead socket receives nothing
Sub-accounts: One login, many funded accounts; per-account sizing needs each addressed
Where it runs: A live session can't run on a laptop that sleeps

What Quanify already handles on the Tradovate API

Quanify signs in over OAuth and holds the session on its servers. You keep the strategy; Quanify never decides what to trade.

Direct OAuth: The official API, no third-party bridge. A revoked token signs in again.
Session held for you: One WebSocket session per connection, re-established when it drops.
Each sub-account: Every funded sub-account under a login is addressed on its own.
Contract rolls: Contract resolution respects expiry, so a cached id doesn't outlive its month.
Executions, not orders: Copies trigger on the execution report and are deduplicated per execution.
No code to write: A strategy is a URL that accepts a POST. TradingView's alert placeholders are enough.

Drive Tradovate from your own code

Anything that sends an HTTP POST can drive a Quanify strategy, so your script or a TradingView alert stays the signal source while Quanify handles the session, sizing and checks.

action, ticker and market_position required; contracts unless flat
20 alerts per second per token, 1,000 a day
A powered-off strategy returns 403

Webhook documentation

Webhook body

{
  "action": "{{strategy.order.action}}",
  "ticker": "{{ticker}}",
  "contracts": "{{strategy.order.contracts}}",
  "market_position": "{{strategy.market_position}}"
}

When to build on the Tradovate API yourself

If you need order types or lifecycle control beyond entry, exit and size, if your logic reacts to the order book, or if you're building a product.

The first example in the docs is easy. A session that stays healthy for weeks takes much longer.

Questions

Common questions

Short answers to what traders ask first. Anything else, the Help Center has it.

Does Tradovate have an API?

Yes: a REST API for accounts and orders, plus a WebSocket feed for real-time events including execution reports. It is documented; check Tradovate's current terms for API access on your account.

Do I need to code to automate Tradovate?

No. Quanify connects to Tradovate over its API for you. Copy Trader copies one account to others, and on the Auto plans a TradingView alert places orders through a webhook strategy.

What is the hardest part of building on the Tradovate API?

Session lifecycle (tokens expire and get revoked), contract resolution across rolls, several execution reports per order, and keeping the process alive somewhere other than your laptop.

Can I use the Tradovate API with prop firm accounts?

A prop-firm Tradovate login usually holds several funded sub-accounts, each addressable through the API. Treating the sub-account as the unit makes per-account sizing possible.

Does Quanify use the official Tradovate API?

Yes, directly over OAuth with no third-party bridge. Fills arrive as broker execution events.

Can I use my own code alongside Quanify?

Yes. Anything that sends an HTTP POST can drive a Quanify strategy, so your script can be the signal source while Quanify handles the session, sizing and checks.

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