kraken-futures-trading

kraken-futures-trading

Use this skill for:

• placing futures buy and sell orders (market, limit, post, stop, take-profit, ioc, trailing-stop, fok)
• editing and cancelling futures orders
• batch order placement for multi-leg strategies
• monitoring open positions and fills

Authentication

Futures use separate credentials from spot:

export KRAKEN_FUTURES_API_KEY="your-futures-key"
export KRAKEN_FUTURES_API_SECRET="your-futures-secret"

Safe Execution Flow

1. Check available contracts:

   kraken futures instruments -o json 2>/dev/null
   

2. Read current price:

   kraken futures ticker PF_XBTUSD -o json 2>/dev/null
   

3. Check account state:

   kraken futures accounts -o json 2>/dev/null
   

4. Place order (requires human approval):

   kraken futures order buy PF_XBTUSD 1 --type limit --price 50000 -o json 2>/dev/null
   

5. Verify placement:

   kraken futures open-orders -o json 2>/dev/null
   

Order Types

Market order:

kraken futures order buy PF_XBTUSD 1 --type market -o json 2>/dev/null

Limit order:

kraken futures order sell PF_XBTUSD 1 --type limit --price 70000 -o json 2>/dev/null

Stop order:

kraken futures order buy PF_XBTUSD 1 --type stop --stop-price 55000 --trigger-signal mark -o json 2>/dev/null

Trailing stop:

kraken futures order sell PF_XBTUSD 1 --type trailing-stop --stop-price 68000 --trailing-stop-max-deviation 500 --trailing-stop-deviation-unit quote_currency -o json 2>/dev/null

Reduce-only (close position without opening new exposure):

kraken futures order sell PF_XBTUSD 1 --type market --reduce-only -o json 2>/dev/null

Batch Orders

Place multiple orders atomically (useful for bracket entries):

kraken futures batch-order '[
  {"order":"sendorder","orderTag":"entry","symbol":"PF_XBTUSD","side":"buy","size":1,"orderType":"lmt","limitPrice":50000},
  {"order":"sendorder","orderTag":"tp","symbol":"PF_XBTUSD","side":"sell","size":1,"orderType":"lmt","limitPrice":55000,"reduceOnly":true}
]' -o json 2>/dev/null