SnapTrade CLI

snaptrade is the quickest way to get started with the SnapTrade API. Link your own brokerage accounts, manage your portfolios, and execute live trades all from the command line!

🚀 Quick Start

Install the CLI globally using npm:

npm install -g @snaptrade/snaptrade-cli

Then run the CLI:

snaptrade

When you run snaptrade <command> for the first time, you need to provide your SnapTrade client ID and consumer key

Once the credentials are set, call snaptrade connect to connect a new account. This will register a new SnapTrade user and open the Connection Portal in your default browser. Pick a broker of your choice to finish the connection process. If you don't have/want to use a live account, you can register an Alpaca paper account with just an email and choose Alpaca Paper in the Connection Portal.

[!NOTE] A free key only has access to a limited set of brokers and cannot execute live trades at the moment.

To see which brokers are supported along with whether trading is enabled, you can run snaptrade brokers.

[!NOTE] To see the latest broker support and capabilities, please refer to this Notion page.

You can also specify the broker directly with snaptrade connect --broker <broker slug> to skip the broker selection step of the Connection Portal.

Once connected, call snaptrade connections to list all current connections.

and snaptrade accounts to list all connected accounts.

Use snaptrade positions to list all positions for an account. You'll be prompted to select an account first.

or snaptrade positions --all to list all positions across all accounts.

To submit an equity order, use snaptrade trade equity. It'll prompt you for confirmation before continuing.

You can pass --useLastAccount to skip the account selector and use the previously selected account instead.

[!NOTE] A free key does not have access to trading at the moment. Please reach out to [email protected] to discuss your trading usecase.

To submit a multi-leg option order, use snaptrade trade option. It'll prompt you for confirmation before continuing.

Once the order is submitted successfully, you have the option to cancel it if it hasn't been filled by the broker. You can find the broker order ID in the response:

To submit a cancellation request, use snaptrade cancel-order. It'll prompt you for confirmation before continuing.

To see a list of all your recent orders, including the one you just placed, use snaptrade orders.

This concludes the quick start guide. Check out our documentation for more information.

📚 Commands

Usage: snaptrade [options] [command]

CLI tool to interact with SnapTrade API

Options:
  -V, --version              output the version number
  --useLastAccount           Use the last selected account for account specific commands (default: false)
  --verbose                  Enable verbose output (default: false)
  -h, --help                 display help for command

Commands:
  status                     Get current status of your SnapTrade API credentials
  brokers                    List all brokers available to connect
  connect [options]          Establish a new broker connection
  reconnect [connectionId]   Re-establish an existing disabled connection
  disconnect [connectionId]  Remove an existing broker connection
  connections                List all broker connections
  accounts                   List all connected accounts
  positions [options]        List all positions for a given account
  recent-orders              List the most recent orders (within last 24 hours) for a given account
  orders                     List all orders for a given account
  instruments                Get a list of available instruments from a broker
  quote [symbols]            Get the latest market quote
  trade [options]            Execute different types of trades (equity, options, crypto)
  cancel-order [options]     Cancel an existing order
  profiles                   Manage SnapTrade CLI profiles
  help [command]             display help for command

☕️ Development

You need the following before getting started:

• mise - manages the project specific node version

To run the cli locally:

npm install
npm link
snaptrade

To release a new version, run npm run release