Kite connect unknown trading symbol

meena

I am unable to place an option order thro' kite connect. It fails with error "kiteconnect.exceptions.InputException: Unknown `tradingsymbol` even though the symbol is from the kite instruments. The following is the place order construct in python.
order_id = kite.place_order(variety=kite.VARIETY_AMO, tradingsymbol="HDFC21SEP2800CE".
exchange=kite.EXCHANGE_NSE,
transaction_type=kite.TRANSACTION_TYPE_BUY,
quantity=1,
order_type=kite.ORDER_TYPE_LIMIT,
price=23.8,
product=kite.PRODUCT_NRML)
I tried changing the exchange to NSE or prepend trading symbol with NFO: but still it fails. I have tried using EXCHANGE_NFO but to no avail.

rakeshr

exchange=kite.EXCHANGE_NSE,

Exchange should be NFO. You can use same instrument list to fetch exchange name as well.

meena

I've already mentioned I used kite.EXCHANGE_NFO as well which resulted in the same error. Is TOTP has be enabled?

rakeshr

quantity=1,

You need to change quantity to it's lot size i.e 300 for HDFC21SEP2800CE.

meena

I tried that but still the same error !

rakeshr

kite.place_order( variety = kite.VARIETY_AMO,
                  tradingsymbol = "HDFC21SEP2800CE",
                  exchange = kite.EXCHANGE_NFO,
                  transaction_type = "BUY",
                  quantity = 300,
                  product = kite.PRODUCT_NRML,
                  order_type = kite.ORDER_TYPE_LIMIT,
                  price = 23.8 )

I just tried the above param, same as yours and it's working fine.

meena

Yes, when I placed the order it worked fine. I could trace the bug to the subroutine where the exchange was hard coded as NSE though I was passing as NFO.
Thank you !!