Questions tagged [kraken]
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Understanding Kraken Trades API (market/limit)
I want to build historical OHLC data from the Kraken trades. Since Kraken does not provide historical OHLC data (at least not going far back), they recommend one builds it oneself using the list of trades…
Flecto
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What is the purpose of XBTEUR.d tradable pair?
On Kraken exchange fee page are listed tradable pairs. Some of them come with an extra suffix *.d, e.g. there are listed fees for together for XBTEUR and XBTEUR.d.
What is the purpose of these pairs? How do the fees are calculated? This information…
a.grochmal
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Valid asset_pair for Kraken.com
Im trying to utilize Kraken's API.
I'm looking for a list of supported asset_pair.
Example: query_public('Ticker', {'pair': 'XETHZEUR'}) will return ticker info for ethereum in relation to euros. The asset pair in this example is XETHZEUR.
Does…
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Does kraken.com charge fees when an order is cancelled?
Do you pay the fees if you order a transaction then cancel/replace it?
What if the order has been partially fulfilled before cancelling?
In other words, do you pay fees for orders or for transactions?
See the same question for e-BTC
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how to make a bitcoin buy with euros on Kraken API
I am trying to use the kraken api to make bitcoin buys with euros, I am looking at the API here
https://www.kraken.com/help/api
But I am here with some doubts
("pair => "XXBTZEUR",
"type" => "buy",
"ordertype" => "market",
"voulme" => ?
)
Witch…
Pedro Gaspar
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Opening a short position on Kraken requires BTC to begin with?
Suppose I have US Dollars on Kraken and no BTC. And suppose I expect the Bitcoin price to drop a bit (which I don't, but suppose) so I would want to speculate and take a short position.
Is this possible at all, or do I first need to have BTC in my…
Joey
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Confused about buy/sell definition in trades history
I'm looking at some trade history provided by the kraken.com API (formatting mine):
Price Volume Time Buy/sell Limit/market Remarks
["7833.00000", "0.17400000", 1559721453.3446, "s", "l", ""],
["7830.00000",…
Tim
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GDAX: Balance and placing a limit order
I had some money on balance in my GDAX account.
I placed a limit order on a price below market price for the whole amount I had, and ... my balance now shows 0.00
The limit order I placed is still open, but my balance decreased. This is different to…
dark_ruby
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Transfer XBT between Kraken accounts
I have to receive an amount of XBT from a relative. Both of us have a Kraken account. Can I achieve this inside Kraken or do I need any external wallet or similar? If I can do it in Kraken, how should I proceed?
Vladimir
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How to place a sell order on Kraken that only sells when the price stops going up?
I can do basic buy/sell on Kraken fine using market and limit orders.
I'd like to place a sell order that will only sell if:
the price of BTC reaches a certain minimum amount
but, if the price keeps on going up, I of course want the system to wait…
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Why volume from ticker in Kraken API is always whole number
You get something like this (formatted) when querying for ticker https://api.kraken.com/0/public/Ticker?pair=XXBTZUSD
{
"error": [],
"result": {
"XXBTZUSD": {
"a": [
"3906.00100",
"2",
…
Igor Mikushkin
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Destination Tag of Ripple Desktop Wallet
I want to withdraw some xrp from an exchange and deposit to my Ripple desktop wallet. I know the address to deposit, but what is the destination tag? The exchange does not let the destination tag to be empty? What should I enter in this field?
user5155835
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Why do wallets of Bitcoin exchanges have tens or hundreds of thousands of addresses?
I am looking to track the wallet of Kraken and see how the balance changes at each block.
For that purpose, I use www.walletexplorer.com (https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/Kraken.com/addresses) and I can have access to all the addresses of…
Younes S
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Doesn't creating a masterkey password on Kraken void the protection of 2FA?
Kraken allows users to create a masterkey that is just a password. Wouldn't creating a password to bypass 2FA completely negate 2FA?
Ryan
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How exchange platforms work?
I am wondering how exchange platforms such as Kraken or Bitfinex can survive bubble exposions? People exchange real currencies for cryptocurrencies. When a bubble explode a lot of people want to trade cryptocurrencies for real currencies so the…
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