> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.trysoar.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get a market by ticker or id ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://api.trysoar.com/v1/openapi.yaml get /markets/{market_id} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: SOAR Trading API version: 1.0.0 description: > Trade prediction markets on private-company valuations. **Authentication.** Log in at https://app.trysoar.com, open Settings, choose Developer settings, and create an API key with the `read` and `trade` scopes. Every request carries exactly one credential: that key in `X-API-KEY` or an OAuth bearer token. API-key scopes do not nest: `read` covers market data and portfolio reads; `trade` covers placing, amending, or canceling orders. OAuth tokens use the granular scopes declared on each operation. A `trade`-only key is rejected on reads. A missing or unusable credential is `401`; a valid credential without the required scope is `403`. **Prices are whole cents, 1–99.** All amounts are integer cents. Fee rates and valuations are decimal *strings*, never JSON floats — a float64 loses precision at these valuations. Hash-derived identifiers (`order_id`) are strings because they exceed the range a JavaScript number represents exactly. **Enums are strings.** `outcome` is `yes`/`no`, `side` is `buy`/`sell`, `time_in_force` is `gtc`/`ioc`/`fok`. Requests accept them case-insensitively; responses always emit the lower-case string. A rejected value returns `400` whose message names every accepted value. ## Addressing markets **Every path that accepts a `market_id` also accepts the market's ticker**, case-insensitively (the column is `CITEXT`), and every response that identifies a market carries both — so you can adopt tickers incrementally rather than in one cutover. Tickers nest by prefix. A market ticker begins with its event ticker, and an event ticker begins with its series ticker: series ANTHROPIC-VALUATION event ANTHROPIC-VALUATION-26Q3 {series}-{YY}Q{n}, from the event's resolution date market ANTHROPIC-VALUATION-26Q3-1.05T {event}-{strike}, one ladder rung STRP-PYPL-26Q4-YES {event}-YES, a binary market So `series ⊂ event ⊂ market`. Two things follow, and both save you a lookup: an event's markets are exactly the tickers that start with the event ticker, and a market's ticker is its event ticker plus a strike segment. The tenor is quarter-granular (`26Q3`, never `26`) because ladder events roll quarterly. **Containment is a prefix guarantee, not a decomposition rule.** "Begins with" holds by construction. Splitting an arbitrary market ticker back into `{event}` + `{strike}` does **not**: nothing forbids a hyphen inside a strike label, so cutting on the last `-` relies on today's labels rather than on this contract. Use `event_ticker`, which every market, order and position carries. Two further cautions. **The series segment is assigned, not derived — read it, do not construct it.** A listed market's series is usually its company symbol plus the market category spelled in full (`ANTHROPIC-VALUATION`), but an operator may name a series explicitly, and then it is simply whatever precedes the tenor (`STRP-PYPL-26Q4` has series `STRP-PYPL`, which is neither symbol nor category). So take `series_ticker` from the response rather than assembling it, and never assume one company's series from another's. And **dots are legal and load-bearing**: most ladder strikes carry a decimal point (`OPENAI-VALUATION-26Q3-212.5B`), and `212.5B` and `2125B` are different rungs. Never sanitize a ticker to alphanumeric. ## Ordering, paging, and time Every timestamp is RFC3339 with nanosecond precision, UTC, `Z`-suffixed. List endpoints take `limit` (1–1000, default 100) and `cursor`, and return a `cursor` field that is **the empty string on the last page** — never absent, never null, so your loop condition is uniform. The cursor is an **opaque token**: do not parse, construct, or persist it across API versions. An unparseable cursor is `400 invalid_cursor`, never a silent restart from page one — silently restarting a paging loop is how a bot doubles positions. Empty collections are `[]`, never `null` — `bids`, `asks`, `candles`, `trades`, `markets`, `events`, `orders`, `positions`, `fills`, `resting_orders`. A brand-new market's snapshot is a well-formed object with empty arrays and an absent `last_trade`, not nulls and not a `500`. That is the common case for a new listing, and the first thing you will hit. ## Market data Start at **`GET /markets/{market_id}/snapshot`**. It returns the market, its order book, its last print, its activity, and your own position and resting orders in it — the five reads you would otherwise join yourself. The individual endpoints exist for when you want one of them on its own. To find something to trade: `GET /markets?q=openai` searches by company name, symbol, or ticker prefix. To see how markets relate: `GET /events` groups them into ladders and gives you the rungs in strike order, which a flat market list cannot. **Depth and bars are recent, not live.** Order-book snapshots are published asynchronously, so `orderbook.as_of` is when the depth was captured. Read it, and treat an `as_of` that stops advancing on an otherwise busy venue as a stalled feed rather than a quiet market. Order *writes*, by contrast, are synchronous: **Order writes are synchronous against the engine.** Matching has already happened when a create or amend returns, so the response carries the engine's own `filled_qty` and `remaining_qty`, and `status` reflects what actually happened — an IOC that filled nothing comes back `canceled`, not `accepted`. The *read* endpoints are projected asynchronously, so a read may briefly lag a write you just made. ## Errors Every error body carries a `code` from a closed set. **Branch on `code`.** The `error` field is free text for a human reading a log; it is not part of the contract and may change without notice. New codes may be added, so treat an unrecognized one as a generic failure of its HTTP class. **`result_unknown` (503) does not mean failure.** It means the command was produced but no reply arrived before the deadline — it **may have committed**. Do not retry blindly and do not treat it as a rejection. Either poll `GET /orders/{order_id}`, or re-send the identical request with the **same `client_order_id`**, which the engine deduplicates. That is what makes the retry safe. **Rate limit.** One token bucket per API key or stable OAuth principal across the whole surface: 250 requests/second sustained, 500 burst. Every response *from an authenticated request* carries `X-RateLimit-Limit` (the burst) and `X-RateLimit-Remaining` (the true post-decrement level). A `401` carries neither because authentication runs before the limiter. A rejection is `429` with `Retry-After` and `X-RateLimit-Reset`; those two headers are present ONLY on a `429`. Self-pace from `X-RateLimit-Remaining` rather than discovering the cap by hitting it — a throttled cancel leaves an order resting that you believe you pulled. servers: - url: https://api.trysoar.com/v1 description: Production - url: https://api.staging.trysoar.com/v1 description: Staging security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] paths: /markets/{market_id}: get: summary: Get a market by ticker or id operationId: getMarket parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/MarketRef' responses: '200': description: The market. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Market' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthenticated' '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/ForbiddenScope' '404': description: No such market. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited' security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] - OAuth2: - soar:markets:read components: parameters: MarketRef: name: market_id in: path required: true description: | The market's ticker **or** its `event_market_id` UUID. Tickers are case-insensitive. schema: type: string pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9.](?:[A-Za-z0-9.-]*[A-Za-z0-9.])?$ examples: - ANTHROPIC-VALUATION-26Q3-1.05T schemas: Market: type: object required: - ticker - market_id - event_ticker - project_market_id - name - outcome_label - state - min_price - max_price - tick_size - maker_fee_rate - taker_fee_rate - open_interest - created_at - updated_at properties: ticker: type: string market_id: type: string format: uuid event_ticker: type: string project_market_id: type: string format: uuid description: The parent prediction market — the ladder a rung belongs to. name: type: string description: type: string description: Absent when unset. outcome_label: type: string state: type: string enum: - active - halted - resolved min_price: type: integer max_price: type: integer tick_size: type: integer strike_value: type: string description: > The rung's valuation threshold as a decimal **string**, not a number: a float64 loses precision here, and a $16B strike has been observed round-tripping as 15999999999.999998. Absent on binary markets, which genuinely have no strike; present on every ladder rung. examples: - '1050000000000.00' strike_unit: type: string maker_fee_rate: type: string description: > Decimal **string**, and a FRACTION not a percent — `"0.0700"` means 7%. Fees follow a Kalshi-style parabolic curve, `rate x qty x p x (1-p)`, ceiled to whole cents and computed on the **original economic price** rather than the canonical YES price. The current denominator is deliberately scaled down for the paper-money beta; it is not the eventual production rate. examples: - '0.0700' taker_fee_rate: type: string examples: - '0.0700' last_price: type: integer description: Absent when the market has never traded. open_interest: type: integer minimum: 0 description: | Contracts outstanding — covered YES+NO pairs issued and not yet retired. Same field as `MarketStats.open_interest`; see there for the full definition. created_at: type: string format: date-time updated_at: type: string format: date-time Error: type: object required: - code - error properties: code: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorCode' error: type: string description: | Human-readable detail for logs. **Not part of the contract** and may change without notice. Never match on this string. details: type: string description: Optional additional context. May be absent. ErrorCode: type: string description: | Closed, machine-branchable failure identifier. Branch on this rather than on `error` text. enum: - invalid_request_body - invalid_market_identifier - invalid_order_id - invalid_price - invalid_qty - invalid_budget - invalid_enum_value - invalid_cursor - invalid_parameter - conflicting_identifiers - conflicting_credentials - missing_idempotency_key - unauthenticated - forbidden_scope - api_key_misconfigured - market_not_found - order_not_found - insufficient_balance - insufficient_shares - market_halted - market_resolved - duplicate_order_id - order_not_cancelable - budget_not_fillable - no_executable_liquidity - invalid_request - venue_halted - venue_cancel_only - rate_limited - engine_overloaded - engine_unavailable - result_unknown - internal_error responses: Unauthenticated: description: | Missing or unusable credential. Bearer failures include the protected resource metadata URL in `WWW-Authenticate`; API-key failures do not. headers: WWW-Authenticate: description: OAuth Bearer challenge when applicable. schema: type: string content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' example: code: unauthenticated error: API key or bearer token required ForbiddenScope: description: | The credential authenticated but lacks the required scope. OAuth failures include an `insufficient_scope` Bearer challenge. headers: WWW-Authenticate: description: OAuth Bearer challenge when applicable. schema: type: string content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' example: code: forbidden_scope error: 'api key lacks scope: trade' RateLimited: description: > Per-principal bucket exhausted, or the engine applied backpressure. Honor `Retry-After`. Both mean nothing was sequenced, so a retry is safe. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' example: code: rate_limited error: rate limited (per-api-key) securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: X-API-KEY description: | Per-user API key. Create and revoke keys from your SOAR account settings. A revoked key stops working within 60 seconds. OAuth2: type: oauth2 description: >- Authorization code with PKCE S256. Tokens are audience-bound to this API. flows: authorizationCode: authorizationUrl: /oauth/authorize tokenUrl: /oauth/token scopes: soar:markets:read: Read market catalog, ladders, books, candles, and trades. soar:account:read: >- Read orders, fills, balances, positions, and personalized snapshots. soar:orders:write: Place, amend, or cancel one known order. soar:orders:bulk-cancel: Cancel fan-out through the trusted SOAR MCP workload. ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.