Place a DCA order for a position | POST /hopper/{id}/position/dca/{position_id}

POST https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/hopper/{id}/position/dca/{position_id}

Places a DCA buy order for one open position, priced at the current ask and sized by the hopper's DCA size setting.

OAuth scope: read manage trade About scopes

The body is optional and takes the same fields as DCA positions (market_order, dca_mode, trailing_buy, trailing_buy_percentage). If the body contains position_ids, those positions are used instead of the path position. Not available for exchange arbitrage, market maker, copy and grid bots.

Example request

curl -X POST "https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/hopper/HOPPER_ID/position/dca/POSITION_ID" \
  -H "access-token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"market_order":0,"dca_mode":"individual"}'

const response = await fetch('https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/hopper/HOPPER_ID/position/dca/POSITION_ID', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
      "access-token": "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "market_order": 0,
      "dca_mode": "individual"
  })
});
const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/hopper/HOPPER_ID/position/dca/POSITION_ID",
    headers={
        "access-token": "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
    },
    json={
        "market_order": 0,
        "dca_mode": "individual"
    },
)
data = response.json()

$ch = curl_init('https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/hopper/HOPPER_ID/position/dca/POSITION_ID');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'access-token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN',
        'Content-Type: application/json',
    ],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
        'market_order' => 0,
        'dca_mode' => 'individual',
    ]),
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

Parameters

Headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
`access-token`	string	Required	The OAuth access token of the user.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`position_id`	string	Required	Open position ID.
`id`	string	Required	Hopper ID.

Response

Example response (illustrative values)

{
    "data": "DCA order(s) created."
}

Status codes: 200. Errors return JSON with status, error and message. See How the API works for response codes and rate limits.