# eToro private 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/private, 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. 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. - Message: `private` - Interface: eToro WebSocket API - Group: Topics - Status: verified. Source: [api-portal.etoro.com](https://api-portal.etoro.com/core/websocket/notifications/websockets/private-portfolio-updates.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 and the topic private. The page names Trading.OrderForOpen.Update and Trading.OrderForCloseMultiple.Update as types of order update. It also describes Trading.Position.Closed and Trading.Position.Opened pushes on this topic and marks the second as an illustrative example, so neither is recorded field by field here. The status and type codes are numbers, and the page does not list their meanings. ## The message - Name: `private` - Direction: Subscription, opened by the client and then fed by the server - Subscribed to as: `private` - 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. Always private here. - `messages[].type` (type string, required): Says what kind of update it is, for example Trading.OrderForOpen.Update or Trading.OrderForCloseMultiple.Update. - `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.OrderID` (type integer (int64), optional): The id of the order. - `content.OrderType` (type integer, optional): A code for the type of order. - `content.CID` (type integer (int64), optional): The customer, or account, id. - `content.StatusID` (type integer, optional): A code for the status of the order. - `content.InstrumentID` (type integer, optional): The instrument the order is in. - `content.RequestGuid` (type string (uuid), optional): An id of the request that made the order. - `content.RequestOccurred` (type string (date-time), optional): When the request was made. - `content.RequestToken` (type string (uuid), optional): A token of the request. - `content.ErrorCode` (type integer, optional): 0 where the order succeeded. - `content.RequestedUnits` (type number (float), optional): The units asked for. - `content.ExecutedUnits` (type number (float), optional): The units executed. - `content.EndRate` (type number (float), optional): The rate the order ended at. - `content.NetProfit` (type number (float), optional): The net profit or loss. - `content.CloseReason` (type integer, optional): A code for why a position was closed. - `content.PendingClosePositionIDs` (type array of integers, optional): The ids of positions waiting to be closed by this order. - `content.OpenDateTime` (type string (date-time), optional): When the order was opened. - `content.IsInMirror` (type boolean, optional): The page gives no description of this field. ## 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. - [instrument:{instrumentId}](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/messages/instrument-rates): 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. ## 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 private. Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/etoro/messages/private, 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.