Overview
Applications

Open and update various types of accounts.

ACH Profiles

Create, update, and verify account ACH profiles.

Transactions

Manage deposit and withdrawal transactions on an account.

Documents

Fetch statements, tax documents and trade confirmations for customers.

Webhooks

Manage and test evented webhooks.

Virtual Accounts

Create and update paper trading accounts.

ACAT Transfers

Manage ACAT Transfers on an account.

Reference

Examples, response types, property details and explanations.

Create Virtual Account

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

Create a paper trading account with Tradier Brokerage. The account will be funded automatically with $100,000 of virtual cash. Additional funds can be made available using the funding API.

Available APIs:

  • Balances (user/account)
  • Positions (user/account)
  • Orders (user/account)
  • Trading
  • Market Data (delayed 15-minute)
  • Watchlists
POST

Headers

Header Required Values/Example Default
Authorization Required Basic XXX
HTTP Basic authentication, more information here.

Parameters

Parameter Type Param Type Required Values/Example Default
firstName Body String Required Jane
First name
lastName Body String Required Doe
Last Name
email Body String Required example@email.com
Email address
agreementSigned Body String Required 2019-06-04T12:08:56.235-0700
Signed virtual account terms of service. Data format: yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'
repCode Body String Required REP
Representative code associated with virtual account

Code Example

curl -X POST "https://sandbox.tradier.com/v2/virtual/accounts" \
     -H 'Authorization: Basic <TOKEN>' \
     -H 'Accept: application/json' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{ "firstName": "Jane","lastName": "Doe","email": "example@email.com","agreementSigned": "2019-06-04T12:08:56.235-0700","repCode": "REP" }'
// Version 1.8.0_31
import static org.apache.http.entity.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.RequestBuilder;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    final ObjectNode node = new ObjectMapper().createObjectNode();
    node.put("firstName", "Jane");
    node.put("lastName", "Doe");
    node.put("email", "example@email.com");
    node.put("agreementSigned", "2019-06-04T12:08:56.235-0700");
    node.put("repCode", "REP");
    final HttpUriRequest request = RequestBuilder
        .post("https://sandbox.tradier.com/v2/virtual/accounts")
        .addHeader("Authorization", "Basic <TOKEN>")
        .addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
        .setEntity(new StringEntity(node.toString(), APPLICATION_JSON))
        .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://sandbox.tradier.com/v2/virtual/accounts")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Basic <TOKEN>'
request["Accept"] = 'application/json'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = '{ "firstName": "Jane","lastName": "Doe","email": "example@email.com","agreementSigned": "2019-06-04T12:08:56.235-0700","repCode": "REP" }'

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"
    "bytes"
)

func main() {
    apiUrl := "https://sandbox.tradier.com/v2/virtual/accounts"
    u, _ := url.ParseRequestURI(apiUrl)
    urlStr := u.String()
    var jsonStr = []byte(`{ "firstName": "Jane","lastName": "Doe","email": "example@email.com","agreementSigned": "2019-06-04T12:08:56.235-0700","repCode": "REP" }`)
    client := &http.Client{}
    r, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", urlStr, bytes.NewBuffer(jsonStr))
    r.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <TOKEN>")
    r.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")
    r.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

    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://sandbox.tradier.com/v2/virtual/accounts");
    var requestData = "{ \"firstName\": \"Jane\",\"lastName\": \"Doe\",\"email\": \"example@email.com\",\"agreementSigned\": \"2019-06-04T12:08:56.235-0700\",\"repCode\": \"REP\" }";
    var data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(requestData);
    
    request.Method = "POST";
    request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic <TOKEN>";
    request.Accept = "application/json";
    request.ContentType = "application/json";
    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://sandbox.tradier.com/v2/virtual/accounts',
    json: {
     'firstName': 'Jane',
     'lastName': 'Doe',
     'email': 'example@email.com',
     'agreementSigned': '2019-06-04T12:08:56.235-0700',
     'repCode': 'REP'
    },
    headers: {
      'Authorization': 'Basic <TOKEN>',
      'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
  }, (error, response, body) => {
      console.log(response.statusCode);
      console.log(body);
  });
# Version 3.6.1
import requests

response = requests.post('https://sandbox.tradier.com/v2/virtual/accounts',
    json={'firstName': 'Jane', 'lastName': 'Doe', 'email': 'example@email.com', 'agreementSigned': '2019-06-04T12:08:56.235-0700', 'repCode': 'REP'},
    headers={'Authorization': 'Basic <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($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://sandbox.tradier.com/v2/virtual/accounts');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '{ "firstName": "Jane","lastName": "Doe","email": "example@email.com","agreementSigned": "2019-06-04T12:08:56.235-0700","repCode": "REP" }');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'Authorization: Basic <TOKEN>';
$headers[] = 'Accept: application/json';
$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/json';
curl_setopt($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

{
    "uuid": "sb-ldkshj",
    "token": "s2AL3srXwiFfLso7Um4xuijo",
    "accountNumber": "VA02372"
}