Deriv active_symbols
Lists the symbols that can be traded now, with the market each belongs to and whether it is open. The symbol codes it returns are what ticks, ticks_history and proposal expect.
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This is a message of the Deriv WebSocket API, not an HTTP endpoint. It has no method and no path: it is sent as JSON over an open WebSocket connection.
The message
- Name
- active_symbols
- Direction
- Request, sent by the client
- Carried by
- WebSocket. Deriv's page marks this call as needing no login, so it can be sent on the public connection as well. The demo and real addresses are not opened as printed: POST /trading/v1/options/accounts/{accountId}/otp returns the address for one account with a one time password already in it.
- Public market data, no login
- wss://api.derivws.com/trading/v1/options/ws/public
- Demo account
- wss://api.derivws.com/trading/v1/options/ws/demo
- Real account
- wss://api.derivws.com/trading/v1/options/ws/real
Fields
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| active_symbolsrequired | string | brief or full. The definition says brief returns only a subset of the fields. |
| contract_type | array of strings | Narrows the list to symbols that offer the named contract types, such as CALL, PUT, MULTUP or ACCU. |
| passthrough | object | Anything you want carried through the call. It comes back unchanged inside echo_req. |
| req_id | integer | A number of your own that is returned on the answer, so answers can be matched to requests. |
What arrives
active_symbols: A list with one entry for each symbol.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| active_symbols[].exchange_is_openrequired | integer | 1 where the market is open now, 0 where it is closed. |
| active_symbols[].is_trading_suspendedrequired | integer | 1 where trading in the symbol is suspended, 0 where it is not. |
| active_symbols[].marketrequired | string | The market the symbol belongs to, such as forex or indices. |
| active_symbols[].pip_sizerequired | number | The smallest step in the price. |
| active_symbols[].subgrouprequired | string | The subgroup the symbol belongs to. |
| active_symbols[].submarketrequired | string | The submarket the symbol belongs to. |
| active_symbols[].trade_countrequired | integer | A count of trades. |
| active_symbols[].underlying_symbolrequired | string | The symbol code. This is the value other calls take. |
| active_symbols[].underlying_symbol_namerequired | string | The name of the symbol for display. |
| active_symbols[].underlying_symbol_typerequired | string | The type of the symbol, such as forex or commodities. |
| echo_reqrequired | object | A copy of the request that was sent. |
| msg_typerequired | string | Names the kind of answer. Here it is active_symbols. |
| req_id | integer | The number the request carried. Present only where the request had one. |
Sample
Written by this site from the fields recorded on this page. It has not been run against a terminal, a server or an account, and the values in it are placeholders. No credential is typed into it: where a field holds one, the placeholder says where it comes from. Nothing is entered on this site.
{
"active_symbols": "brief"
}Limits that apply at Deriv
| Limit | Value | Scope | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headline limit | 80/min per logged in user (REST)Sources conflict developers.deriv.com states 60, checked . Deriv's API overview in the text form it publishes for AI tools gives REST 60 requests a minute per token, where its Limits page gives 80 a minute per logged in user. The same overview also gives 100 WebSocket requests a second per connection, 100 active subscriptions per connection and 5 concurrent WebSocket connections per user, none of which the Limits page mentions. Deriv's own pages disagree; the conflict is labelled, not resolved. Pace against 60. | user, REST | developers.deriv.comchecked |