# Qfex

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/qfex/  
**Website:** https://docs.qfex.com  
**APIs profiled:** 5

QFEX is the first 24/7 exchange built exclusively for US equities, commodities, and FX, offering high-leverage perpetual futures on traditional assets without a broker. Founded by former Tower Research and Citadel engineers who met studying mathematics at Cambridge, QFEX gives retail and institutional traders direct, high-frequency access to markets around the clock. Its developer platform exposes a REST API for historic market data and account operations, two multiplexed WebSocket gateways (market data and trading) documented with AsyncAPI 3.0, and a JSON-native CLI purpose-built for agentic trading workflows. Authentication uses HMAC-SHA256 request signing with public/secret API key pairs.

## Kin Score — 53.9 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 63.2 |
| Governance | 11.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 47.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 69.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 51.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 44.4 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **QFEX Market Data WebSocket (MDS)** — Multiplexed WebSocket gateway for all QFEX real-time market data streams: order book, trades, candles, BBO, mark price, funding rate, open interest, market stats and reference d...
- **QFEX Trade WebSocket** — Multiplexed WebSocket gateway for QFEX order entry and account streams: add / modify / cancel orders, stop orders, TWAPs, close position, leverage, balances, positions, fills an...
- **Qfex market-data API** — The market-data API from Qfex — 9 operation(s) for market-data.
- **Qfex pnl API** — The pnl API from Qfex — 1 operation(s) for pnl.
- **Qfex user API** — The user API from Qfex — 15 operation(s) for user.

## MCP servers (1)

- **qfex-mcp.yml**

## Security (3)

- **Qfex Authentication** — apiKey · 4 schemes
- **Qfex Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Qfex Vulnerability Disclosure** — contact published

## Tags

Company, Trading, Exchange, Perpetual Futures, Market Data, WebSocket, FX, Commodities, Equities, Financial Services, CLI, Fintech, Real-time

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/qfex/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.