Kalshi CLI tool

Enables CLI interaction with Kalshi's trading api. Supported operations include:

• Retrieve all markets
• Retrieve individual market by ID
• Retrieve user positions
• Place order (with custom expiration, not supported via UI)

Kalshi docs

Setup

WIP

Usage

kalshi help - lists usages within CLI

Placing Orders

kalshi buy -a <amount> -id <marketId> -p <price> -s <side> -e <expiration> -max <maxCost> -sellCap <sellPositionCapped> 
kalshi sell -a <amount> -id <marketId> -p <price> -s <side> -e <expiration> -max <maxCost> -sellCap <sellPositionCapped> 

There are no "buy" and "sell" orders in kalshi, you can buy shares on one side, or you can buy the opposite side to close a position (see the site for more details). The sell command, therefore, attempts to place an order to "close", or buy a contract on the opposite side that you offer (all contracts are yes/no binaries)

Retrieving Markets

kalshi getMarket -id <id>
kalshi getMarkets

Retrieving Positions

kalshi positions

Notes

This tool is still a WIP. Outstanding items include:

• Supporting new Kalshi API methods
• Using local json to map ticker to market ID for methods dependent on market ID
• Additional test coverage
• Pretty print orderbook
• Pretty print market bids for cached markets
• Add addtional arguments for methods not currently supported

Contributing: