As per discussion with @iamzoltan, the kraken api (and frankly their
whole web UI system) is kind of a filthy mess that makes little sense
compared with how most trades would expect to track positions in
different "crypto$ assets" to be presented.
The main annoyance is that they don't seem to keep track of spot
position "average price" information for your account and instead
require API users to retrieve past trades and compute their own pp
value.. Why they do offer pp tracking on margin trading positions
but not spot is quite baffling and seems like just poor engineering
(though not surprised, try using their charting platform 😹).
Things that are either confusing af or of note in their api:
goodboy
commented
1 year ago
As per discussion with @iamzoltan, the
krakenapi (and frankly their whole web UI system) is kind of a filthy mess that makes little sense compared with how most trades would expect to track positions in different "crypto$ assets" to be presented.Most of the dirty details are in this article: https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/203325683-Differences-between-spot-exchange-and-margin-trading
The main annoyance is that they don't seem to keep track of spot position "average price" information for your account and instead require API users to retrieve past trades and compute their own
ppvalue.. Why they do offer pp tracking on margin trading positions but not spot is quite baffling and seems like just poor engineering (though not surprised, try using their charting platform 😹).Things that are either confusing af or of note in their api:
resultkeys are 😂