# eToro instrument:{instrumentId} 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/messages/instrument-rates, 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. The live rate of one instrument: each push carries the ask, the bid, the last execution price and the time. It is public market data, and the page says no authentication is needed. - Message: `instrument:{instrumentId}` - Interface: eToro WebSocket API - Group: Topics - Status: verified. Source: [api-portal.etoro.com](https://api-portal.etoro.com/core/websocket/notifications/websockets/instrument-rates.md), checked 2026-10-12. - The definition file it was checked against: https://api-portal.etoro.com/api-reference/asyncapi.json This is a subscription of the eToro WebSocket API, not an HTTP endpoint. It has no method and no path: it is sent as JSON over an open WebSocket connection. It is in no OpenAPI file on this site and the request builder does not list it. Note: Subscribed to with the Subscribe request, with the instrument's id in place of {instrumentId}, for example instrument:100000. The same page describes a second push on this topic, Trading.Instrument.MarketStatus, and marks it as an illustrative example, so it is not recorded here. The AsyncAPI document says that on the wire every value of the rate is a JSON string. ## The message - Name: `instrument:{instrumentId}` - Direction: Subscription, opened by the client and then fed by the server - Subscribed to as: `instrument:{instrumentId}` - Carried by: WebSocket. - WebSocket address: `wss://ws.etoro.com/ws` - Answers: [Subscribe](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/messages/subscribe) ## Fields - `messages` (type array of objects, required): The envelope of every push. It holds one update or several. - `messages[].topic` (type string, required): The topic the update belongs to, such as instrument:100000. - `messages[].type` (type string, required): Says what kind of update it is. Here it is Trading.Instrument.Rate. - `messages[].id` (type string (uuid), required): The id of this push message. - `messages[].content` (type string, required): The update itself, as a string of JSON that has to be parsed a second time. The fields below, written content.Name, are what that string holds. - `content.Ask` (type number (float), optional): The ask price: the price at which you can buy. - `content.Bid` (type number (float), optional): The bid price: the price at which you can sell. - `content.LastExecution` (type number (float), optional): The price of the most recent execution in the instrument. - `content.Date` (type string (date-time), optional): The time of the price. - `content.PriceRateID` (type string, optional): The id of this rate. - `content.NewUnitMargin` (type number (float), optional): Marked obsolete. The US dollar equivalent of the price. - `content.UnitMarginAsk` (type number (float), optional): Marked obsolete. The US dollar equivalent of the ask. - `content.UnitMarginBid` (type number (float), optional): Marked obsolete. The US dollar equivalent of the bid. - `content.BidDiscounted` (type number (float), optional): Marked obsolete. - `content.AskDiscounted` (type number (float), optional): Marked obsolete. - `content.UnitMarginBidDiscounted` (type number (float), optional): Marked obsolete. - `content.UnitMarginAskDiscounted` (type number (float), optional): Marked obsolete. ## 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. ## Related eToro messages: Topics - [candle:{instrumentId}](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/messages/instrument-candles): Candle updates for one instrument: each push carries the open, high, low, close and volume of one interval. The page says no authentication is needed. - [private](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/messages/private): Order and transaction updates for the logged in user. It needs a successful Authenticate first. Each push carries an order update: the order, its status, the instrument and the units asked for and executed. ## More on eToro - [All eToro messages](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/messages): 6 documented here, grouped by what they do. - [eToro API quickstart](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/quickstart) - [All eToro 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. ## 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 instrument:{instrumentId}. Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/messages/instrument-rates, 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.