Use Restrictions

In order to avoid affecting other users' connections, please follow the following usage rules.

Traffic

• Stock :

  Trading volume by API in the past 30 days	Daily Traffic Limit
  0	500MB
  1 - 1E	2GB
  > 1E	10GB

• Future :

  Trading volume by API in the past 30 days	Daily Traffic Limit
  0	500MB
  1 - TXF 1000 contracts / MXF 4000 contracts	2GB
  > TXF 1000 contracts / MXF 4000 contracts	10GB

Traffic query

api.usage()

Out

UsageStatus(connections=1, bytes=41343260, limit_bytes=2147483648, remaining_bytes=2106140388)

connection: connection count.
bytes: traffic.
limit_bytes: limit bytes of daily.
remaining_bytes: remaining bytes of daily.

Counts

• Data :

  credit_enquire, short_stock_sources, snapshots, ticks, kbars

  • The total amount of inquiries above is limited to 50 times within 5 seconds.
  • During trading hours, it is prohibited to query ticks more than 10 times.
  • During trading hours, it is prohibited to query kbars more than 270 times.

• Portfolio :

  list_profit_loss_detail,account_balance, list_settlements, list_profit_loss, list_positions, margin

  The total amount of inquiries above is limited to 25 times within 5 seconds.

• Order :

  place_order, update_status, update_qty, update_price, cancel_order

  The total amount of inquiries above is limited to 250 times within 10 seconds.

• Subscribe :

  Number of api.subscribe() is 200.

• Connect :

  The same SinoPac Securities person_id can only use up to 5 connections.

  note. api.login()create a connection.

• Login :

  Up to 1000 times per day.

Warn

• If the traffic exceeds the limit, query requests for market data such as ticks, snapshots, and kbars will return empty values, while other functionalities remain unaffected.
• If the usage exceeds the limit, the service will be suspended for one minute.
• If the limit is exceeded multiple times in a row on the same day, the company will suspend the right to use the IP and ID.
• If the ID is suspended, please contact Shioaji management staff