OANDA

OANDA is a forex and CFD trading broker offering REST APIs for live and practice trading. The v20 REST API provides access to real-time forex rates, order management, trade lifecycle, position tracking, and historical OHLC candle data dating back to 2005. A separate Exchange Rates Data API delivers institutional-grade FX rates across 200+ currencies for data services use cases.

7 APIs 16 Features

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APIs

OANDA Account API

Manage and retrieve OANDA trading account details, summaries, tradeable instruments, and configuration settings. Supports polling for account state changes since a specified tra...

OANDA Order API

Create, list, modify, and cancel orders in an OANDA trading account. Supports market, limit, stop, take profit, stop loss, and trailing stop order types with FOK, IOC, DAY, GTD,...

OANDA Trade API

List, retrieve, partially or fully close open trades, and manage dependent orders (take profit, stop loss, trailing stop loss) for trades in an OANDA account.

OANDA Position API

List all positions (historical and open) and close out open positions for a specific instrument in an OANDA trading account.

OANDA Transaction API

Access full transaction history for an OANDA trading account with time-based and ID-range queries. Includes a streaming endpoint for real-time transaction notifications from the...

OANDA Pricing API

Retrieve real-time bid/ask pricing, stream live price updates at up to 4 per second, and access historical OHLC candlestick data for any tradeable instrument. Historical data is...

OANDA Exchange Rates API

Institutional-grade foreign exchange data service covering 200+ currencies and 38,000+ currency pairs. Provides daily average rates, period averages, ECB and national bank rates...

Pricing Plans

Oanda Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits

Oanda Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps

Oanda Finops

FINOPS

Features

REST v20 API with JSON over HTTP; stateless and language-agnostic

Bearer token (Personal Access Token) authentication via fxTrade AMP

Live and practice (demo) trading environments

Real-time forex rates for all tradeable pairs 24 hours a day

Historical candlestick data from 2005 onward (S5 to Monthly granularity)

Streaming pricing endpoint at up to 4 price updates per second

Full order lifecycle — market, limit, stop, OCO (TP/SL pair), trailing stop

Trade management including partial close and dependent order updates

Position closeout by instrument

Unlimited recent transaction history with streaming endpoint

Rate limit of 30 requests per user; aggregate of 20 streaming connections

New connection limit of 2 per second; persistent connections up to 100 per second

Exchange Rates Data API covering 200+ currencies and 38,000+ currency pairs

Exchange Rates free 7-day trial with unlimited quotes

FIX API for institutional customers

MT4 integration for backtesting support

Semantic Vocabularies

Oanda Context

5 classes · 0 properties

GitHubOrganization

Sources

aid: oanda
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/oanda/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: oanda:oanda-account-api
  name: OANDA Account API
  tags:
  - Accounts
  - Forex
  - Trading
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/account-ep/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/account-ep/
    type: APIReference
  description: Manage and retrieve OANDA trading account details, summaries, tradeable instruments, and configuration settings.
    Supports polling for account state changes since a specified transaction ID.
- aid: oanda:oanda-order-api
  name: OANDA Order API
  tags:
  - Orders
  - Forex
  - Trading
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/order-ep/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/order-ep/
    type: APIReference
  description: Create, list, modify, and cancel orders in an OANDA trading account. Supports market, limit, stop, take profit,
    stop loss, and trailing stop order types with FOK, IOC, DAY, GTD, and GTC durations.
- aid: oanda:oanda-trade-api
  name: OANDA Trade API
  tags:
  - Trades
  - Forex
  - Trading
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/trade-ep/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/trade-ep/
    type: APIReference
  description: List, retrieve, partially or fully close open trades, and manage dependent orders (take profit, stop loss,
    trailing stop loss) for trades in an OANDA account.
- aid: oanda:oanda-position-api
  name: OANDA Position API
  tags:
  - Positions
  - Forex
  - Trading
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/position-ep/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/position-ep/
    type: APIReference
  description: List all positions (historical and open) and close out open positions for a specific instrument in an OANDA
    trading account.
- aid: oanda:oanda-transaction-api
  name: OANDA Transaction API
  tags:
  - Transactions
  - Forex
  - Trading
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/transaction-ep/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/transaction-ep/
    type: APIReference
  description: Access full transaction history for an OANDA trading account with time-based and ID-range queries. Includes
    a streaming endpoint for real-time transaction notifications from the moment the request is made.
- aid: oanda:oanda-pricing-api
  name: OANDA Pricing API
  tags:
  - Pricing
  - Forex
  - Real-Time Rates
  - Historical Data
  - Candles
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/pricing-ep/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/pricing-ep/
    type: APIReference
  description: Retrieve real-time bid/ask pricing, stream live price updates at up to 4 per second, and access historical
    OHLC candlestick data for any tradeable instrument. Historical data is available from 2005 onward with up to 5,000 records
    per page.
- aid: oanda:oanda-exchange-rates-api
  name: OANDA Exchange Rates API
  tags:
  - Exchange Rates
  - Forex
  - FX Data
  - Currencies
  properties:
  - url: https://www.oanda.com/foreign-exchange-data-services/en/exchange-rates-api/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.oanda.com/foreign-exchange-data-services/en/exchange-rates-api/api-plans/
    type: Pricing
  description: Institutional-grade foreign exchange data service covering 200+ currencies and 38,000+ currency pairs. Provides
    daily average rates, period averages, ECB and national bank rates, forward rates, streaming spot rates updated every five
    seconds, and cryptocurrency rates. Available via annual subscription plans starting at $4,850/year.
name: OANDA
tags:
- Forex
- FX Trading
- CFD Trading
- Financial Services
- Trading APIs
kind: contract
access: 3rd-Party
common:
- url: https://developer.oanda.com/
  type: Portal
- url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/introduction/
  type: Documentation
- url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/introduction/
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/account-ep/
  type: APIReference
- url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/authentication/
  type: Authentication
- url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/best-practices/
  type: BestPractices
- url: https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/api-comparison/
  type: APIComparison
- url: https://github.com/oanda/v20-openapi
  type: OpenAPISource
- url: https://github.com/oanda/v20-python
  type: PythonSDK
- url: https://github.com/oanda/v20-python-samples
  type: CodeSamples
- url: https://github.com/oanda/v20-javascript
  type: JavaScriptSDK
- url: https://github.com/oanda/v20-java
  type: JavaSDK
- url: https://github.com/oanda
  type: GitHubOrganization
- url: https://www.oanda.com/foreign-exchange-data-services/en/exchange-rates-api/api-plans/
  type: Pricing
- url: https://www.oanda.com/
  type: Website
- url: https://www.oanda.com/us-en/trading/demo-account/
  type: Signup
- type: Features
  data:
  - REST v20 API with JSON over HTTP; stateless and language-agnostic
  - Bearer token (Personal Access Token) authentication via fxTrade AMP
  - Live and practice (demo) trading environments
  - Real-time forex rates for all tradeable pairs 24 hours a day
  - Historical candlestick data from 2005 onward (S5 to Monthly granularity)
  - Streaming pricing endpoint at up to 4 price updates per second
  - Full order lifecycle — market, limit, stop, OCO (TP/SL pair), trailing stop
  - Trade management including partial close and dependent order updates
  - Position closeout by instrument
  - Unlimited recent transaction history with streaming endpoint
  - Rate limit of 30 requests per user; aggregate of 20 streaming connections
  - New connection limit of 2 per second; persistent connections up to 100 per second
  - Exchange Rates Data API covering 200+ currencies and 38,000+ currency pairs
  - Exchange Rates free 7-day trial with unlimited quotes
  - FIX API for institutional customers
  - MT4 integration for backtesting support
  sources:
  - https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/introduction/
  - https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/best-practices/
  - https://developer.oanda.com/rest-live-v20/api-comparison/
  updated: '2026-06-13'
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
position: Consuming
description: OANDA is a forex and CFD trading broker offering REST APIs for live and practice trading. The v20 REST API provides
  access to real-time forex rates, order management, trade lifecycle, position tracking, and historical OHLC candle data dating
  back to 2005. A separate Exchange Rates Data API delivers institutional-grade FX rates across 200+ currencies for data services
  use cases.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
- name: OANDA
  url: https://www.oanda.com
specificationVersion: '0.19'
image: https://www.oanda.com/img/oanda-logo.png