Overview

Details about how to obtain access tokens using OAuth 2.0

Fetch positions, balances and other account related details.

Place equity and complex option trades including advanced orders.

Fetch quotes, chains and historical data via REST and streaming APIs.

Stream market data and account events in real-time.

Create and update custom watchlists.

Examples, response types, property details and explanations.

Search for Symbols

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

Search for a symbol using the ticker symbol or partial symbol. Results are in descending order by average volume of the security. This can be used for simple search functions.

GET

Headers

Header Required Values/Example Default
Accept Optional application/xml, application/json application/xml
Authorization Required Bearer {token}

Parameters

Parameter Type Param Type Required Values/Example Default
q Query String Required goog Current month
Search query
exchanges Query String Optional Q,N All
Which exchanges to include in lookup
types Query String Optional stock, option, etf, index All
Which security types to include in lookup

Code Example

If you're developing using a paper trading account, change the hostname to https://sandbox.tradier.com
curl -X GET "https://api.tradier.com/v1/markets/lookup?q=goog&exchanges=Q,N&types=stock, option, etf, index" \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>' \
     -H 'Accept: application/json'
// Version 1.8.0_31    
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.RequestBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import java.io.IOException;

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    final HttpUriRequest request = RequestBuilder
        .get("https://api.tradier.com/v1/markets/lookup")
        .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <TOKEN>")
        .addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
        .addParameter("q", "goog")
        .addParameter("exchanges", "Q,N")
        .addParameter("types", "stock, option, etf, index")
        .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://api.tradier.com/v1/markets/lookup?q=goog&exchanges=Q,N&types=stock, option, etf, index")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <TOKEN>'
request["Accept"] = 'application/json'

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"
)

func main() {
    apiUrl := "https://api.tradier.com/v1/markets/lookup?q=goog&exchanges=Q,N&types=stock, option, etf, index"

    u, _ := url.ParseRequestURI(apiUrl)
    urlStr := u.String()

    client := &http.Client{}
    r, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", urlStr, nil)
    r.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <TOKEN>")
    r.Header.Add("Accept", "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://api.tradier.com/v1/markets/lookup?q=goog&exchanges=Q,N&types=stock, option, etf, index");
    request.Method = "GET";
    request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Bearer <TOKEN>";
    request.Accept = "application/json";

    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: 'get',
    url: 'https://api.tradier.com/v1/markets/lookup',
    qs: {
       'q': 'goog',
       'exchanges': 'Q,N',
       'types': 'stock, option, etf, index'
    },
    headers: {
      'Authorization': 'Bearer <TOKEN>',
      'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
  }, (error, response, body) => {
      console.log(response.statusCode);
      console.log(body);
  });
# Version 3.6.1    
import requests

response = requests.get('https://api.tradier.com/v1/markets/lookup',
    params={'q': 'goog', 'exchanges': 'Q,N', 'types': 'stock, option, etf, index'},
    headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer <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($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.tradier.com/v1/markets/lookup?q=goog&exchanges=Q,N&types=stock, option, etf, index');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');

$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>';
$headers[] = 'Accept: 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

{
  "securities": {
    "security": [
      {
        "symbol": "GOOGL",
        "exchange": "Q",
        "type": "stock",
        "description": "Alphabet Inc"
      },
      {
        "symbol": "GOOG",
        "exchange": "Q",
        "type": "stock",
        "description": "Alphabet Inc. - Class C Capital Stock"
      }
    ]
  }
}