# Trades

Receive real-time updates regarding completed trades in your account–fills on orders you've placed. Complete trade history can also be retrieved from the REST API. See [Get All Trades](/rest-api/orders/get-all-trades.md) for details.

### **Subscribing** 

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="100"></th><th>Feed Name</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Feed name</td><td><strong><code>private.user.trades</code></strong> </td></tr></tbody></table>

```json
// Request -> trades feed
{
    "type": "subscribe", 
    "feeds": ["private.user.trades"]
}
```

### Trades Message

#### Trade Object

<table><thead><tr><th width="213">Value</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong><code>trade_id</code></strong></td><td>The ID of the trade</td></tr><tr><td><strong><code>order_id</code></strong></td><td>The ID of the order that this trade is associated with</td></tr><tr><td><strong><code>date_updated</code></strong></td><td>The date and time the trade was completed</td></tr><tr><td><strong><code>action</code></strong></td><td>Buy or Sell</td></tr><tr><td><strong><code>currency_pair</code></strong></td><td>The currency pair this trade was executed on</td></tr><tr><td><strong><code>quantity</code></strong></td><td>The base currency quantity bought or sold in this trade</td></tr><tr><td><strong><code>amount</code></strong></td><td>The gross quote currency amount cost or proceeds from this trade</td></tr><tr><td><strong><code>price</code></strong></td><td>The fill price of this trade</td></tr><tr><td><strong><code>fees</code></strong></td><td>The fees charged on this trade (always in the quote currency)</td></tr><tr><td><strong><code>net_amount</code></strong></td><td>The net quote currency amount cost or proceeds from this trade (<code>amount</code> net fees)</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### Trades Message

{% hint style="info" %}
Payload will contain a list of one or more trade objects, each representing a unique, completed trade.
{% endhint %}

```json
// Trades feed message
{
    "sequence": 3,
    "recipient": "private.user.trades",
    "timestamp": 1708630086193678496,
    "payload": [
        {
            "trade_id": 830151520,
            "order_id": 759514460,
            "date_updated": "2024-02-22T19:28:06.000Z",
            "action": "Sell",
            "currency_pair": "compusd",
            "quantity": "1.65911629",
            "amount": "99.47066469",
            "price": "59.954004",
            "fees": "0.04973533",
            "net_amount": "99.42092936"
        }
    ]
}
```

### Example Code

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="NodeJS" %}

```javascript
const WebSocket = require('ws')

const ws = new WebSocket('wss://ws.sfox.com/ws')

ws.on('open', function() {
  const authMessage = {
   type: 'authenticate',
   apiKey: '<API_KEY>'
  }
  
  ws.send(JSON.stringify(authMessage))
})

// After successful authentication, subscribe to trades feed
const subscribeMsg = {
  type: 'subscribe',
  feeds: ['private.user.trades']
}

ws.send(JSON.stringify(subscribeMsg))
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import asyncio
import json

import websockets


async def main(uri):
    async with websockets.connect(uri) as ws:
        await ws.send(json.dumps({
            "type": "authenticate",
            "apiKey": "<API_KEY>"
        }))

        # After successful authentication message, subscribe to trades feed
        await ws.send(json.dumps({
            "type": "subscribe",
            "feeds": ["private.user.trades"]
        }))
        async for msg in ws:
            print(msg)


asyncio.run(main("wss://ws.sfox.com/ws"))
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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