Open short positions | POST /hopper/{id}/position/short

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

Opens short positions from the given open positions by placing sell orders at the current bid, or at market.

OAuth scope: read manage trade About scopes

market_order 1 places market orders. Positions that already have an open order, or whose coin balance is below the minimum trade amount, are skipped; if only some positions could be shorted, data says so. Not available for exchange arbitrage, market maker, copy, grid and AI bots.

Example request

curl -X POST "https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/hopper/HOPPER_ID/position/short" \
  -H "access-token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"position_ids":[123456,123457],"market_order":0}'

const response = await fetch('https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/hopper/HOPPER_ID/position/short', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
      "access-token": "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "position_ids": [
          123456,
          123457
      ],
      "market_order": 0
  })
});
const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/hopper/HOPPER_ID/position/short",
    headers={
        "access-token": "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
    },
    json={
        "position_ids": [
            123456,
            123457
        ],
        "market_order": 0
    },
)
data = response.json()

$ch = curl_init('https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/hopper/HOPPER_ID/position/short');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'access-token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN',
        'Content-Type: application/json',
    ],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
        'position_ids' => [
            123456,
            123457,
        ],
        'market_order' => 0,
    ]),
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($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
`id`	string	Required	Hopper ID.

Response

Example response (illustrative values)

{
    "data": "Sell orders placed for selected positions."
}

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