Connect Kraken with a read-only key
Flicker reads positions, balances and orders with this key. Where Kraken reports its permissions, Flicker refuses a key that can trade or withdraw, so create a read-only one.
On Kraken
Sign in to Kraken, open your profile icon, then Settings › API.
Choose Create API key and describe it as Flicker.
Tick only Query Funds, Query Open Orders & Trades, Query Closed Orders & Trades and Query Ledger Entries. Leave Deposit Funds, Withdraw Funds, Modify Orders and Cancel/Close Orders off.
API key permissions
- ReadSee positions, balances and ordersOn
- TradePlace or cancel ordersOff
- WithdrawMove funds outOff
Illustration. Each exchange names these permissions in its own words. Restrict the key to Flicker's IP address, 18.153.160.58. It's recommended for security.
Choose Generate key, then copy the API key and private key.
Optional, for futures: sign in to Kraken Futures separately, open your name › Settings › Create Key, set General API to Read Only and Withdrawal API to No Access, then copy the public and private key.
Paste it below. Where the exchange reports it, Flicker checks what the key can do before saving it.
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The key is checked before anything is saved, and you can remove it at any time.
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After you connect, Kraken may email or text you about a new API login: that's this key. Your first history can take a few minutes to load.
Kraken at a glance
- Connect with
- Key and secret, plus an optional futures key
- Synced
- Positions, balances and order history
- Stops and targets
- Not read yet
- Setup
- 7 steps
- First sync
- Positions while you connect; history can take a few minutes
- After that
- On each visit and once a day
What you'll see after connecting
- Every open position with entry, mark and unrealized P&L, beside your other exchanges.
- Kraken doesn't share stops with Flicker yet, so its positions read “Not reported by this exchange” and the loss-at-stop total leaves them out.
- Flicker's read on each asset you hold: its verdict and how many factors agree.
- Closed trades as a record and a weekly review. R needs the stop at entry, which Kraken doesn't share yet.
If something goes wrong
When Kraken rejects a key, check that it was copied whole, has read access and allows 18.153.160.58. Each message below comes with its fix.
- Kraken rejected this key.
- Create a new read-only key on Kraken and paste it here.
- Kraken refused the request.
- Try again in a minute. If it repeats, create a new key.
- Couldn't reach Kraken.
- Try again in a minute.
- Too many key checks.
- Try again in an hour.