# eToro API POST /api/v2/trading/info/costs Independent and unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any broker or platform named here. Educational only: nothing here is advice, and nothing here recommends a broker or a trade. This is the markdown version of https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/endpoints/real-costs, written from the same records as that page. Risk warning: CFDs and spread bets are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You can lose money on these products, and each provider publishes its own loss figure under FCA rules. You should consider whether you understand how they work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Automated and API trading can amplify losses through bugs, connectivity failures and runaway orders. Works out the costs a proposed real account order would carry if it were executed now: markup, spread, transaction fee, overnight and weekend fees and tax. Nothing is traded. - Request: `POST /api/v2/trading/info/costs` - Version: v2 - Group: Trading (Real) - Status: verified. Source: [api-portal.etoro.com](https://api-portal.etoro.com/api-reference/trading--real/get-what-if-trading-cost-breakdown.md), checked 2026-10-12. - Official reference: https://api-portal.etoro.com/api-reference/trading--real/get-what-if-trading-cost-breakdown.md Note: Read on eToro's own reference page on 12 Oct 2026: method, path, parameters and the top level response fields. A Read key is enough (OAuth scopes etoro-public:real:read or etoro-public:trade.real:read, or their write forms). The body is the same order description the order calls take. Also documented on the page: additionalMargin and positionIds. The fields of each entry in costs were not read. Documented rate limit: 20 requests per 60 seconds. ## Parameters - `x-request-id` (in header, type string, required): A fresh UUID for every request. - `Content-Type` (in header, type string, required): Send application/json on a request with a body. - `action` (in body, type string, required): open or close. For open, give exactly one of symbol or instrumentId. For close, positionIds must not be empty. - `transaction` (in body, type string, required): buy, sell, sellShort or buyToCover. buy opens a long position and sellShort opens a short one. - `instrumentId` (in body, type integer, optional): eToro instrument ID. For an open give exactly one of instrumentId or symbol. - `symbol` (in body, type string, optional): Ticker symbol, as the alternative to instrumentId. - `orderType` (in body, type string, optional): mkt (market), mit (market if touched, needs triggerRate) or limitIOC (needs limitRate). - `amount` (in body, type number, optional): Amount to invest in the order currency. Mutually exclusive with units and contracts. - `units` (in body, type number, optional): Number of units. Mutually exclusive with amount and contracts. - `contracts` (in body, type number, optional): Number of contracts, for real futures. Mutually exclusive with amount and units. - `orderCurrency` (in body, type string, optional): Currency of the amount. eToro says only USD is currently supported. - `leverage` (in body, type integer, optional): Leverage multiplier. Defaults to 1. Anything above 1 needs a stopLossRate. - `stopLossRate` (in body, type number, optional): Rate at which the position closes to limit a loss. - `takeProfitRate` (in body, type number, optional): Rate at which the position closes to take profit. - `stopLossType` (in body, type string, optional): fixed or trailing. Default fixed. - `settlementType` (in body, type string, optional): cfd, real, realFutures or marginTrade. - `triggerRate` (in body, type number, optional): Trigger rate. Required for mit orders and rejected for the other types. - `limitRate` (in body, type number, optional): Limit rate. Required for limitIOC orders and rejected for the other types. ### Authentication headers - `x-api-key` (type string, required): Your public API key, which identifies the application. Sent with x-user-key; eToro's reference says an OAuth 2.0 bearer token can be used instead of the key pair, not alongside it. Placeholder only: never paste a real key into this site. - `x-user-key` (type string, required): Your user key from Settings > Trading > API Key Management. Each key is tied to one environment (Demo or Real) and to Read or Write permission. Placeholder only. ## Request Written from the method, path and parameters recorded on this page. No demo host is recorded as a plain address for this API, so the samples read the base address from an environment variable. Not executed against a live or demo account. Credentials are read from environment variables on your own machine and are never entered on this site. The request builder at https://openbrokerapi.com/tools/request-builder writes these same snippets, from the same record. This call takes a request body. The samples send it as JSON with a placeholder for each of the 2 body fields the record marks as required. Each placeholder has to be replaced with a real value before the request can succeed. ### Python ```python # Set ETORO_BASE_URL, ETORO_API_KEY, ETORO_USER_KEY as environment variables first. Never paste real values into code. # No demo host is recorded as a plain address for this API, so the base address is read from ETORO_BASE_URL. # Replace each {placeholder}, "..." and 0 with a real value before running. # Optional and not shown: body fields instrumentId, symbol, orderType, amount, units, contracts, orderCurrency, leverage, stopLossRate, takeProfitRate, stopLossType, settlementType, triggerRate, limitRate. import os import requests BASE_URL = os.environ["ETORO_BASE_URL"] headers = { "x-api-key": os.environ["ETORO_API_KEY"], "x-user-key": os.environ["ETORO_USER_KEY"], "x-request-id": "...", "Content-Type": "application/json", } body = {"action": "...", "transaction": "..."} resp = requests.post(BASE_URL + "/api/v2/trading/info/costs", headers=headers, json=body, timeout=10) resp.raise_for_status() print(resp.json()) ``` ### JavaScript ```javascript // Set ETORO_BASE_URL, ETORO_API_KEY, ETORO_USER_KEY as environment variables first. Never paste real values into code. // No demo host is recorded as a plain address for this API, so the base address is read from ETORO_BASE_URL. // Replace each {placeholder}, "..." and 0 with a real value before running. // Optional and not shown: body fields instrumentId, symbol, orderType, amount, units, contracts, orderCurrency, leverage, stopLossRate, takeProfitRate, stopLossType, settlementType, triggerRate, limitRate. // Run as a module, for example a .mjs file, on a Node version that has fetch built in. const BASE_URL = process.env.ETORO_BASE_URL; const res = await fetch(BASE_URL + "/api/v2/trading/info/costs", { method: "POST", headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.ETORO_API_KEY, "x-user-key": process.env.ETORO_USER_KEY, "x-request-id": "...", "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({"action": "...", "transaction": "..."}), }); if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${res.status}`); console.log(await res.json()); ``` ### curl ```bash # Set ETORO_BASE_URL, ETORO_API_KEY, ETORO_USER_KEY as environment variables first. Never paste real values into code. # No demo host is recorded as a plain address for this API, so the base address is read from ETORO_BASE_URL. # Replace each {placeholder}, "..." and 0 with a real value before running. # Optional and not shown: body fields instrumentId, symbol, orderType, amount, units, contracts, orderCurrency, leverage, stopLossRate, takeProfitRate, stopLossType, settlementType, triggerRate, limitRate. curl -X POST "$ETORO_BASE_URL/api/v2/trading/info/costs" \ -H "x-api-key: $ETORO_API_KEY" \ -H "x-user-key: $ETORO_USER_KEY" \ -H "x-request-id: ..." \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"action": "...", "transaction": "..."}' ``` ## Response A mock response. The values are invented, so check field names against the [official reference](https://api-portal.etoro.com/api-reference/trading--real/get-what-if-trading-cost-breakdown.md). ```json { "_mock": true, "instrumentId": 999001, "symbol": "MOCK", "costs": [], "lastUpdated": "2026-09-18T08:00:00Z" } ``` ## Limits that apply at eToro - Headline limit: 60/min reads per key - Scope: user - Status: verified. Source: [api-portal.etoro.com](https://api-portal.etoro.com/core/getting-started/rate-limits.md), checked 2026-09-20. - Note: Most GET calls. Trading and writes: 20 a minute. Tracked per user key over a one minute rolling window, 429 on excess. The page states no response headers, and the 120 per 60 seconds market data quota carried from earlier readings is now unverified. ## More on the eToro API - [All eToro API endpoints](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/endpoints): 51 documented, grouped by what they do. - [eToro API quickstart](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/quickstart) - [All eToro API error codes](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/etoro) - [eToro API page](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro): The full record: access, authentication, limits and the source for each. - [eToro API as an OpenAPI file](https://openbrokerapi.com/specs/etoro.json): Generated from these endpoint records. Independent and unofficial. ## Licence and how to cite The records behind this page are all rights reserved. This file is the page itself, at its own address, in another format. It is not part of the CC BY 4.0 downloads listed at https://openbrokerapi.com/data. Quote from it with a link to the page. Cite as: eToro API POST /api/v2/trading/info/costs. Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/endpoints/real-costs, newest check 2026-10-12. Where you rely on a single figure, cite the source and the checked date printed beside it as well. Where this page and a broker's own documentation differ, the documentation wins.