[start, end), one row per open position per committed hour, each with snapshot_ts. The change log and hourly history start January 17, 2025; live snapshots refresh every 2 minutes. Rows past the trade finalization watermark are preliminary (finalized: false). Billed at 1 credit per 1,000 rows returned, minimum 1 credit per request.
Route Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/lighter/accounts/{account_index}/positions/history |
| operationId | getLighterAccountPositionsHistory |
| Tag | Lighter - Positions |
| Family | Lighter |
| Deprecated or legacy | no |
Request Parameters
Path Parameters
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"title": "getLighterAccountPositionsHistory path parameters",
"type": "object",
"required": [
"account_index"
],
"properties": {
"account_index": {
"description": "Lighter account index (an integer). Resolve an L1 address on Lighter mainnet with GET /v1/lighter/accounts?l1_address=0x...",
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^[0-9]+$",
"example": "513030",
"x-parameter-location": "path"
}
}
}
Query Parameters
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"title": "getLighterAccountPositionsHistory query parameters",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"start": {
"description": "Inclusive start in Unix milliseconds. Defaults to 24 hours before `end`.",
"type": "integer",
"format": "int64",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"end": {
"description": "Exclusive end in Unix milliseconds. Defaults to now.",
"type": "integer",
"format": "int64",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"symbol": {
"description": "Only this perpetual (e.g. BTC). Pass it exactly as the instruments route lists it, in uppercase.",
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"limit": {
"description": "Maximum rows per page (default 500, max 5000).",
"type": "integer",
"default": 500,
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 5000,
"x-parameter-location": "query"
},
"cursor": {
"description": "Cursor from the previous response `meta.next_cursor`. Keep every other parameter unchanged.",
"type": "string",
"x-parameter-location": "query"
}
}
}
Response Contracts
Status 200
Get Lighter account position historyapplication/json
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"title": "getLighterAccountPositionsHistory response 200",
"description": "Hourly position rows.",
"type": "object",
"required": [
"data",
"meta",
"success"
],
"properties": {
"data": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"description": "One open position. Numbers are decimal strings (sizes to the market size precision, prices to the market price precision, USD values to 6 decimals); a flat position serializes as `\"0\"`. Hyperliquid rows carry `dex` on HIP-3; Lighter rows carry `account_index`, `account_kind`, and the Lighter fields at the end. Fields a source does not report are null, never estimated.",
"type": "object",
"required": [
"coin",
"cum_funding",
"entry_price",
"leverage",
"liquidation_price",
"liquidation_price_status",
"margin_used",
"mark_price",
"mark_time",
"max_leverage",
"opened_at",
"position_value",
"quality",
"return_on_equity",
"side",
"size",
"snapshot_as_of",
"symbol",
"unrealized_pnl"
],
"properties": {
"account_index": {
"description": "Lighter only: account index, serialized as a string because it can exceed JavaScript integers.",
"type": "string",
"example": "281474976710654"
},
"account_kind": {
"description": "Lighter only: `user`, `insurance`, `settlement`, or `system`. Non-user accounts appear in market routes only with `include_system=true`.",
"type": "string",
"example": "user"
},
"allocated_margin": {
"description": "Lighter only: isolated margin allocated to the position.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "1200.5"
},
"coin": {
"description": "Alias of `symbol`.",
"type": "string",
"example": "BTC"
},
"cum_funding": {
"description": "Cumulative funding in USD (decimal strings). Null when not reported, including every Lighter row and as-of reconstructions.",
"type": "object",
"required": [
"all_time",
"since_change",
"since_open"
],
"properties": {
"all_time": {
"description": "Funding paid or received over the account lifetime for this coin.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "-12.345678"
},
"since_change": {
"description": "Funding since the last change in position size.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "-0.5"
},
"since_open": {
"description": "Funding since the current position opened.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "-1.25"
}
}
},
"dex": {
"description": "HIP-3 only: the dex the position belongs to.",
"type": "string",
"example": "xyz"
},
"entry_price": {
"description": "Average entry price.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "64210.5"
},
"finalized": {
"description": "Lighter only: true when every trade behind the row is final (reconciled).",
"type": "boolean",
"example": true
},
"initial_margin_fraction": {
"description": "Lighter only: initial margin fraction at the last trade, as a decimal ratio.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "0.05"
},
"leverage": {
"description": "Leverage of a position.",
"type": "object",
"required": [
"type",
"value"
],
"properties": {
"type": {
"description": "Margin type: `cross`, `isolated`, or `unknown`. On Lighter this is the margin mode of the position.",
"type": "string",
"example": "cross"
},
"value": {
"description": "Leverage multiple as a decimal string. Null when unknown (Lighter rows and as-of reconstructions).",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "20"
}
}
},
"liquidation_price": {
"description": "Liquidation price as reported for the position. Hyperliquid snapshot rows only.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "81250"
},
"liquidation_price_status": {
"description": "How `liquidation_price` should be read: `exact`, `not_published_cross`, `changed_since_snapshot`, or `unavailable` (always `unavailable` on Lighter and on as-of reconstructions).",
"type": "string",
"example": "exact"
},
"margin_mode": {
"description": "Lighter only: `cross`, `isolated`, or `unknown`.",
"type": "string",
"example": "cross"
},
"margin_used": {
"description": "Margin allocated to the position in USD. Hyperliquid snapshot rows only.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "1625.5"
},
"mark_price": {
"description": "Mark price used for value and PnL. Null when no mark is available.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "65020.1"
},
"mark_source": {
"description": "Lighter only: where the mark came from: `mark`, `last_trade`, `stale_mark`, or `none`.",
"type": "string",
"example": "mark"
},
"mark_time": {
"description": "Time of the mark price.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"nullable": true
},
"max_leverage": {
"description": "Maximum leverage allowed for the market. Hyperliquid snapshot rows only.",
"type": "integer",
"nullable": true,
"example": 40
},
"opened_at": {
"description": "Start of the current position lifecycle. Null when it opened before coverage.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"nullable": true
},
"position_value": {
"description": "Absolute position value in USD at the mark price.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "32510.05"
},
"quality": {
"description": "Quality of this row. `complete`, `partial` (a mark or entry is missing, so value and PnL fields are null), or `degraded`. Lighter rows can also read `preliminary` (built from real-time trades not yet reconciled), `unreconciled` (a market with no reconciled trades), or `incomplete`. No row reads `complete` when its own data is not complete, or when its snapshot has a problem that could not be pinned to specific rows. A small number of Hyperliquid positions around three short windows in June and July 2025, where Hyperliquid's published fill data has gaps, read `partial`.",
"type": "string",
"example": "complete"
},
"return_on_equity": {
"description": "Return on equity as a decimal ratio. Hyperliquid snapshot rows only.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "-0.1245"
},
"side": {
"description": "Position side.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"long",
"short"
],
"example": "short"
},
"size": {
"description": "Signed position size in base units (negative is short).",
"type": "string",
"example": "-0.5"
},
"snapshot_as_of": {
"description": "Time the leverage, margin, and funding fields describe, which can differ from the hour. Hyperliquid snapshot rows only.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"nullable": true
},
"snapshot_ts": {
"description": "Hour the row describes. Present on hourly history rows only.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"symbol": {
"description": "Market symbol (HIP-3: `dex:COIN`).",
"type": "string",
"example": "BTC"
},
"unrealized_pnl": {
"description": "Unrealized PnL in USD at the mark price.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "-404.8"
}
}
}
},
"meta": {
"description": "Response metadata of the account positions routes. Every instant is RFC 3339 UTC with milliseconds and comes from the data, never the request time.",
"type": "object",
"required": [
"count",
"request_id"
],
"properties": {
"as_of": {
"description": "Instant the returned state describes: the snapshot tick or hour, or the requested as-of time.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"built_through": {
"description": "Every event before this instant is built into the change log and as-of state. Reads are clamped to it.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"clamped_to": {
"description": "Boundary the read was clamped to (`built_through`). Present only when clamped.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"count": {
"description": "Number of records returned.",
"type": "integer"
},
"coverage_from": {
"description": "Coverage start, present with `notice` when the request falls before coverage or the address has no recorded activity.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"finalized_through": {
"description": "Every event before this instant is final and will not be re-derived (Lighter: the trade finalization watermark). Never later than `built_through`.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"next_cursor": {
"description": "Signed cursor for the next page, bound to the request. Pass it back with the same parameters. A market cursor pins its snapshot; if that snapshot is replaced or expires the next page answers 409 `snapshot_advanced`.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true
},
"notice": {
"description": "Human-readable advisory: before coverage, no recorded activity, or a stale snapshot.",
"type": "string"
},
"quality": {
"description": "Completeness of the snapshot the response was read from: `complete`, `partial`, or `degraded`. Rows carry their own `quality`. On Lighter and Robinhood Chain, snapshots from the latest day, before the venue's daily trade reconcile, can read `degraded` while their rows read `preliminary`; they read `complete` once the reconcile has run.",
"type": "string"
},
"request_id": {
"description": "Unique request ID for support.",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid"
},
"requested_end": {
"description": "The `end` or `timestamp` the caller asked for, echoed when the read was clamped.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"snapshot_ts": {
"description": "Committed snapshot the response was read from. Market routes echo the resolved `hour` here.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"source": {
"description": "How the rows were produced: `snapshot` (live or hourly snapshot), `reconstructed` (as-of state between snapshots), or `changes` (change log).",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"snapshot",
"reconstructed",
"changes"
]
},
"stale": {
"description": "True on current reads when the latest snapshot is older than 12 minutes; paired with `notice`.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"totals": {
"description": "Market listings, first page only: aggregates over the whole filtered result set, not just this page.",
"allOf": [
{
"description": "Long and short aggregates of every open position in one market at one snapshot. Averages cover only positions with a known entry (`*_positions_with_entry`). Shares are decimal ratios of the side or total value held by the ten largest positions.",
"type": "object",
"required": [
"coin",
"long_avg_entry_price",
"long_count",
"long_positions_with_entry",
"long_size",
"long_top10_value_share",
"long_value",
"quality",
"short_avg_entry_price",
"short_count",
"short_positions_with_entry",
"short_size",
"short_top10_value_share",
"short_value",
"snapshot_ts",
"symbol",
"top10_value_share"
],
"properties": {
"coin": {
"description": "Alias of `symbol`.",
"type": "string",
"example": "BTC"
},
"dex": {
"description": "HIP-3 only.",
"type": "string",
"example": "xyz"
},
"long_avg_entry_price": {
"description": "Size-weighted average entry of long positions with a known entry.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "63120.4"
},
"long_count": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int64",
"example": 18234
},
"long_positions_with_entry": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int64",
"example": 18230
},
"long_size": {
"description": "Total long size in base units.",
"type": "string",
"example": "8123.45"
},
"long_top10_value_share": {
"description": "Share of long value held by the ten largest long positions.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "0.412345"
},
"long_value": {
"description": "Total long value in USD. Null when any long position has no mark.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "528000000.5"
},
"quality": {
"description": "`complete`, `partial`, or `degraded`, from this market's own rows.",
"type": "string",
"example": "complete"
},
"short_avg_entry_price": {
"description": "Size-weighted average entry of short positions with a known entry.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "66210.9"
},
"short_count": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int64",
"example": 15102
},
"short_positions_with_entry": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int64",
"example": 15100
},
"short_size": {
"description": "Total short size in base units.",
"type": "string",
"example": "8120.1"
},
"short_top10_value_share": {
"description": "Share of short value held by the ten largest short positions.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "0.385"
},
"short_value": {
"description": "Total short value in USD. Null when any short position has no mark.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "527800000.25"
},
"snapshot_ts": {
"description": "Snapshot the aggregates describe.",
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"nullable": true
},
"symbol": {
"type": "string",
"example": "BTC"
},
"top10_value_share": {
"description": "Share of total value held by the ten largest positions.",
"type": "string",
"nullable": true,
"example": "0.301"
}
}
}
]
}
}
},
"success": {
"type": "boolean",
"example": true
}
}
}
Status 400
Invalid requestapplication/json
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"title": "getLighterAccountPositionsHistory response 400",
"description": "Error response",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"code": {
"description": "HTTP status code",
"type": "integer"
},
"error": {
"description": "Error message",
"type": "string"
},
"error_code": {
"description": "Machine-readable error code. Common values: `invalid_query_params` (a query parameter failed to parse or validate) and `invalid_path_params` (a path parameter failed to parse). Other endpoint-specific codes exist; treat unknown codes as generic errors of the given HTTP status.",
"type": "string"
},
"request_id": {
"description": "Unique request ID for support",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid"
}
}
}
OpenAPI example
{
"code": 400,
"error": "Failed to deserialize query string: limit: invalid digit found in string",
"error_code": "invalid_query_params",
"request_id": "3f2a9c71-5b0e-4d68-9a4c-7e1d2b6f8a05"
}
Status 401
Authentication requiredapplication/json
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"title": "getLighterAccountPositionsHistory response 401",
"description": "Error response",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"code": {
"description": "HTTP status code",
"type": "integer"
},
"error": {
"description": "Error message",
"type": "string"
},
"error_code": {
"description": "Machine-readable error code. Common values: `invalid_query_params` (a query parameter failed to parse or validate) and `invalid_path_params` (a path parameter failed to parse). Other endpoint-specific codes exist; treat unknown codes as generic errors of the given HTTP status.",
"type": "string"
},
"request_id": {
"description": "Unique request ID for support",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid"
}
}
}
OpenAPI example
{
"code": 401,
"error": "Missing or invalid API key. Provide X-API-Key header."
}
Status 404
Resource not foundapplication/json
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"title": "getLighterAccountPositionsHistory response 404",
"description": "Error response",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"code": {
"description": "HTTP status code",
"type": "integer"
},
"error": {
"description": "Error message",
"type": "string"
},
"error_code": {
"description": "Machine-readable error code. Common values: `invalid_query_params` (a query parameter failed to parse or validate) and `invalid_path_params` (a path parameter failed to parse). Other endpoint-specific codes exist; treat unknown codes as generic errors of the given HTTP status.",
"type": "string"
},
"request_id": {
"description": "Unique request ID for support",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid"
}
}
}
OpenAPI example
{
"code": 404,
"error": "Resource not found"
}
Status 429
Rate limit exceededapplication/json
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"title": "getLighterAccountPositionsHistory response 429",
"description": "Error response",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"code": {
"description": "HTTP status code",
"type": "integer"
},
"error": {
"description": "Error message",
"type": "string"
},
"error_code": {
"description": "Machine-readable error code. Common values: `invalid_query_params` (a query parameter failed to parse or validate) and `invalid_path_params` (a path parameter failed to parse). Other endpoint-specific codes exist; treat unknown codes as generic errors of the given HTTP status.",
"type": "string"
},
"request_id": {
"description": "Unique request ID for support",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid"
}
}
}
OpenAPI example
{
"code": 429,
"error": "Rate limit exceeded"
}
Status 503
Positions, pagination, or an as-of reconstruction are temporarily unavailable (error_code positions_unavailable, pagination_unavailable, or reconstruction_unavailable). Retry shortly.
application/json
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"title": "getLighterAccountPositionsHistory response 503",
"description": "Error response",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"code": {
"description": "HTTP status code",
"type": "integer"
},
"error": {
"description": "Error message",
"type": "string"
},
"error_code": {
"description": "Machine-readable error code. Common values: `invalid_query_params` (a query parameter failed to parse or validate) and `invalid_path_params` (a path parameter failed to parse). Other endpoint-specific codes exist; treat unknown codes as generic errors of the given HTTP status.",
"type": "string"
},
"request_id": {
"description": "Unique request ID for support",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid"
}
}
}
OpenAPI example
{
"code": 503,
"error": "Account positions are not available right now.",
"error_code": "positions_unavailable"
}