Lighter - Positions

Get Lighter account position history

Hourly position rows of one account in [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.

get/v1/lighter/accounts/{account_index}/positions/history

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.0xarchive.io
  • URL: https://api.0xarchive.io/v1/lighter/accounts/{account_index}/positions/history
  • Auth: API key in header X-API-Key

Path parameters

account_indexstring required
Example:513030

Lighter account index (an integer). Resolve an L1 address on Lighter mainnet with GET /v1/lighter/accounts?l1_address=0x...

Query parameters

integer

Unix milliseconds.

OR
string date-time

RFC 3339 instant.

Example:1767225600000

Inclusive start. Defaults to 24 hours before end. Accepts Unix milliseconds or an RFC 3339 UTC string such as 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z.

integer

Unix milliseconds.

OR
string date-time

RFC 3339 instant.

Example:1767225600000

Exclusive end. Defaults to now. Accepts Unix milliseconds or an RFC 3339 UTC string such as 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z.

symbolstring

Only this perpetual (e.g. BTC). Pass it exactly as the instruments route lists it, in uppercase.

limitinteger

Maximum rows per page (default 500, max 5000).

cursorstring

Opaque pagination cursor: pass meta.next_cursor from the previous page unchanged, with the same filters. Omit it for the first page. Keep every other parameter unchanged.

Response

Get Lighter account position history

successboolean required

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    {
      "account_index": "281474976710654",
      "account_kind": "user",
      "symbol": "BTC",
      "coin": "BTC",
      "dex": "xyz",
      "size": "-0.5",
      "side": "short",
      "entry_price": "64210.5",
      "mark_price": "65020.1",
      "position_value": "32510.05",
      "unrealized_pnl": "-404.8",
      "return_on_equity": "-0.1245",
      "leverage": {
        "type": "cross",
        "value": "20"
      },
      "max_leverage": 40,
      "margin_used": "1625.5",
      "liquidation_price": "81250",
      "liquidation_price_status": "exact",
      "cum_funding": {
        "all_time": "-12.345678",
        "since_open": "-1.25",
        "since_change": "-0.5"
      },
      "quality": "complete",
      "initial_margin_fraction": "0.05",
      "allocated_margin": "1200.5",
      "margin_mode": "cross",
      "mark_source": "mark",
      "finalized": true
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "totals": {
      "symbol": "BTC",
      "coin": "BTC",
      "dex": "xyz",
      "long_count": 18234,
      "short_count": 15102,
      "long_size": "8123.45",
      "short_size": "8120.1",
      "long_value": "528000000.5",
      "short_value": "527800000.25",
      "long_avg_entry_price": "63120.4",
      "short_avg_entry_price": "66210.9",
      "long_positions_with_entry": 18230,
      "short_positions_with_entry": 15100,
      "long_top10_value_share": "0.412345",
      "short_top10_value_share": "0.385",
      "top10_value_share": "0.301",
      "quality": "complete"
    },
    "symbol": "BTC",
    "venue": "hyperliquid"
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.