Particularly Pertinent Programming Interface

There are two additional helper methods that OandaClient exposes, beyond OANDA’s own v20 client; account(), close_all_trades().

Getting the Account Status

OANDA’s v20 API is a RESTful service. Meaning that the server only sends the changes to the account, rather then the full account. This is useful, in that it reduces network traffic, but requires addition computation on the client side. As changes sent from the server must be incorporated locally.

This functionality is implemented in the account() method.

In order to check the status of the account. Use the await syntax, like so:


async def get_account():
    async with OandaClient() as client:
        return await client.account()

Note

The account() method uses the response from account_changes() to update the local account object. the response from account_changes() contains more information than the Account specifies. Meaning that some information contained in the account_changes() response is lost when updating the account. It has been chosen to only keep Order’s Trade’s Position’s, in the account that are currently open. This is to resemble the behaviour of OANDA’s Web based browser interface

Transaction’s are stored on the client as transactions

Closing all Trades

The close_all_trades() method is provided to help facilitate your risk management policy. async_v20 is intended to be used as an algorithmic trading platform, which naturally raises concerns of run away losses, to the unbeknown user.

close_all_trades() is intended to help mitigate this concern by allowing users to programme a global stop loss by which all trades can be terminated.

Note

Users who implement this feature should account for the Two possible outcomes.

OR

  • returns (True, closed_trade_responses) - All trades were closed