kiteconnect.exceptions.InputException: Unknown `tradingsymbol` in MCX

AshaAdariyana

I am using kite connect API, using python.
I'm place order in MCX as below

ltp = kite.ltp('MCX:CRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE')['MCX:CRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE']['last_price']
kite.place_order(tradingsymbol='CRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE', exchange=kite.EXCHANGE_MCX,
variety=kite.VARIETY_REGULAR,
transaction_type=kite.TRANSACTION_TYPE_BUY, quantity=1,
order_type=kite.ORDER_TYPE_LIMIT,
product=kite.PRODUCT_NRML, price=ltp)

and getting the error below

"kiteconnect.exceptions.InputException: Unknown `tradingsymbol`

rakeshr

tradingsymbol='CRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE'

Trading symbol looks correct. Can you retry placing using the same param?

AshaAdariyana

yes,
if I place NFO order it placed successfully,
but in MCX error comes Unknown `tradingsymbol`

sujith

Can you run pykiteconnect with debug logs on and paste the complete stacktrace with request and response logs?

PS: Make sure to remove app and client specific tokens.

AshaAdariyana

As kite api documentation, my code is as below

import logging
from kiteconnect import KiteConnect

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
global kite
try:
    kite = KiteConnect(api_key="api_key")
    kite.set_access_token("access_token")
    kite.profile()
    print("logged in")
except ke.TokenException as e:
    print('Sorry, there was an error [%s]. Let''s start over\n\n' % e)
# Place an order
ltp = kite.ltp('MCX:CRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE')['MCX:CRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE']['last_price']
print("LTP of CRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE is : " + str(ltp))
try:
    orderid = kite.place_order(tradingsymbol='CRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE', exchange=kite.EXCHANGE_MCX,
                               variety=kite.VARIETY_REGULAR,
                               transaction_type=kite.TRANSACTION_TYPE_BUY, quantity=1,
                               order_type=kite.ORDER_TYPE_LIMIT,
                               product=kite.PRODUCT_NRML, price=ltp)
    logging.info("Order placed. ID is: {}".format(order_id))
except Exception as e:
    logging.info("Order placement failed: {}".format(e.message))

Response as below

DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.kite.trade:443
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://api.kite.trade:443 "GET /user/profile HTTP/1.1" 200 None
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.kite.trade:443
logged in
LTP of CRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE is : 51.8
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://api.kite.trade:443 "GET /quote/ltp?i=MCX%3ACRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE HTTP/1.1" 200 None
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.kite.trade:443
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://api.kite.trade:443 "POST /orders/regular HTTP/1.1" 400 97
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\autoTrade\zerodha_mcx_final - order - Copy.py", line 17, in
orderid = kite.place_order(tradingsymbol='CRUDEOIL21DEC5100PE', exchange=kite.EXCHANGE_MCX,
File "C:\Users\prary\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kiteconnect\connect.py", line 355, in place_order
return self._post("order.place",
File "C:\Users\prary\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kiteconnect\connect.py", line 841, in _post
return self._request(route, "POST", url_args=url_args, params=params, is_json=is_json, query_params=query_params)
File "C:\Users\prary\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\kiteconnect\connect.py", line 913, in _request
raise exp(data["message"], code=r.status_code)
kiteconnect.exceptions.InputException: Unknown `tradingsymbol`.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\autoTrade\zerodha_mcx_final - order - Copy.py", line 24, in
logging.info("Order placement failed: {}".format(e.message))
AttributeError: 'InputException' object has no attribute 'message'

Error comes in MCX exchange instrument only, NFO order placed successfully.
getting LTP works fine, Please guide to solve this

rakeshr

Can you let us know, which python client version you are on?
Paste the output of pip show kiteconnect.
Also, change exchange="MCX"(string) instead of using kite constant and check.

AshaAdariyana

I used Python version 3.9.9

pip show kiteconnect
Name: kiteconnect
Version: 4.0.0
Summary: The official Python client for the Kite Connect trading API
Home-page: https://kite.trade
Author: Zerodha Technology Pvt. Ltd. (India)
Author-email: [email protected]
License: MIT
Location: c:\users\prary\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages
Requires: service-identity, pyOpenSSL, requests, six, autobahn, pywin32, enum34, python-dateutil
Required-by:

exchange="MCX" worked and order placed successfully..
Thanks a lot....