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Kraken Trade Structure

Trade schema from Kraken Spot WebSocket API v2

Type: object Properties: 7
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Trade is a JSON Structure definition published by Kraken, describing 7 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/json-structure/v0/schema meta-schema.

Properties

symbol side qty price ord_type trade_id timestamp

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/json-structure/v0/schema

JSON Structure

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{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/json-structure/v0/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kraken/refs/heads/main/json-structure/kraken-trade-structure.json",
  "name": "Trade",
  "type": "object",
  "description": "Trade schema from Kraken Spot WebSocket API v2",
  "properties": {
    "symbol": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "PI_XBTUSD"
      ]
    },
    "side": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "buy",
        "sell"
      ],
      "description": "Taker order direction.",
      "examples": [
        "buy"
      ]
    },
    "qty": {
      "type": "double",
      "examples": [
        0.01
      ]
    },
    "price": {
      "type": "double",
      "examples": [
        "0.01"
      ]
    },
    "ord_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "limit",
        "market"
      ],
      "description": "Taker order type.",
      "examples": [
        "limit"
      ]
    },
    "trade_id": {
      "type": "int64",
      "description": "Sequence number unique per trading book.",
      "examples": [
        "OQCLML-BW3P3-BUCMWZ"
      ]
    },
    "timestamp": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "2026-05-30T00:00:00Z"
      ]
    }
  }
}