Subscribe to the account information channel to keep track of your account balance. The account information channel will provide a feed of your balance for as long as the channel remains open. Any authenticated connection is automatically subscribed to the account information channel.

Example code to open an authenticated connection can be found on our Authenticated Channels Page.

Balance events are sent with CHAN_ID = 0 and can be identified by looking at the TYPE stream field. Balance update events can be recognised by the 'bu' (balance update) abbreviation.

[
  0, //CHAN_ID
  "bu", //MSG_TYPE
  [
    4131.85, //AUM
    4131.85 //AUM_NET
  ] //BALANCE_UPDATE_ARRAY
]

Balance info update data

Index	Field	Type	Description
[0]	CHAN_ID	Int	Identification number assigned to the channel for the duration of this connection.
[1]	MSG_TYPE	String	'bu' (balance update)
[2]	BALANCE_UPDATE_ARRAY	Array	Balance update array

Balance update array (Index 2)

Index	Term	Type	Description
[0]	AUM	float	Total Assets Under Management
[1]	AUM_NET	float	Net Assets Under Management (total assets - total liabilities)