[websockets] What does the "trades" field mean in the `MarketTrade` event

[mitchmindtree]

I'm testing the MarketTrade event but don't quite understand the data returned under the "trades" field. An example of a returned event:

{
    "id": 0,
    "timestamp": 0,
    "marketId": 2001,
    "agency": "BTCMarkets",
    "instrument": "BTC",
    "currency": "AUD",
    "trades": [
        [1532333307052, 1040000000000, 1589225, 2038602603]
    ]
}

Could you please explain:

1. what the 4 elements in the inner "trades" array mean and
2. what does it mean to get more than one element in the outer "trades" array?

Thanks for your time!

[JoshuaBatty]

Also requiring further detail about what the trades array represents. Haven't been able to find anything so far.... Can anyone provide a quick description of what the 4 fields in the array represent? Thanks.

[ahmohamed]

Unofficial answer here. The four elements in "trades" correspond to [timestamp (in milliseconds), price (multiplied by 1e8), amount (multiplied by 1e8), trade_id]

[mitchmindtree]

Perfect, thanks so much!

On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 at 9:13 pm, Ahmed Mohamed notifications@github.com wrote:

Unofficial answer here. The four elements in "trades" correspond to [timestamp (in milliseconds), price (multiplied by 1e8), amount (multiplied by 1e8), trade_id]

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[justin-ngin]

The answer provided by ahmohamed is correct. In addition, if there is more than one element in the trades array, each element represents one trade since the last socket event. We're looking to give some love to the websocket and its documentation soon.

Cheers, Justin

[JoshuaBatty]

Thanks @justin-ngin +1 for more web socket support. Especially those account related events that keep getting teased ;)

[JoshuaBatty]

This issue can probably be closed now.