market

Endpoint for getting data about a specific market by its ticker. A market represents a specific binary outcome within an event that users can trade on (e.g., "Will candidate X win?"). Markets have yes/no positions, current prices, volume, and settlement rules.

get/markets/{ticker}

Request

  • Base URL
    https://external-api.kalshi.com/trade-api/v2
  • URL
    https://external-api.kalshi.com/trade-api/v2/markets/{ticker}
  • Auth
    none declared

Path parameters

tickerstring required

Market ticker

Response

Market retrieved successfully

Example response

{
  "market": {
    "yes_bid_dollars": "0.5600",
    "yes_bid_size_fp": "10.00",
    "yes_ask_dollars": "0.5600",
    "yes_ask_size_fp": "10.00",
    "no_bid_dollars": "0.5600",
    "no_ask_dollars": "0.5600",
    "last_price_dollars": "0.5600",
    "volume_fp": "10.00",
    "volume_24h_fp": "10.00",
    "open_interest_fp": "10.00",
    "notional_value_dollars": "0.5600",
    "previous_yes_bid_dollars": "0.5600",
    "previous_yes_ask_dollars": "0.5600",
    "previous_price_dollars": "0.5600",
    "settlement_value_dollars": "0.5600",
    "settlement_floor_dollars": "0.5600",
    "mve_selected_legs": [
      {
        "yes_settlement_value_dollars": "0.5600"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Changes

    • info

      response property market/no_sub_title deprecated

    • info

      added the optional property / to the response with the status

    • info

      added the required property / to the response with the status