As a tied agent under § 3 Sec. 2 WplG on the account and under the liability of DonauCapital Wertpapier GmbH, Passauer Str. 5, 94161 Ruderting (short: DonauCapital), lemon.markets GmbH offers you the receipt and transmission of orders for clients (§ 2 Sec. 2 Nr. 3 WpIG) of financial instruments according to § 2 Sec. 5 WpIG as well as brokerage of accounts.
The Paper Trading API is an API that allows you to execute Paper Trading orders and manage your Paper Trading positions. You can use it to safely test your strategies and products.
You can register on our Dashboard. After you have verified your account, you can log in. We have already created an initial API key for you, which you can use to get started directly in the Paper Trading API.
The Live Trading API will be shut down 2023-03-16. We stopped to onboard new customers to the product and ask all existing customers to relocate their assets, so the brokerage accounts can be closed: Live Trading Shutdown FAQ. Paper trading and market data will remain available.
You can log in at https://dashboard.lemon.markets/ with your email and password.
In the Dashboard you will find an overview of your positions, orders, transactions etc. or you can create new API keys.
The Paper Trading environment is open and free to anyone who would like to use it and has access to a valid email address.
To access the Paper Trading environment you can sign up via our Dashboard. All you need to do is use your personal email address and create a password. That's all and you are good to go! 🎉
You can delete your account by sending an email to support@lemon.markets. Please notice that there is a four-week notice attached to the termination of your contract.
As lemon.markets does not own a banking license, your securities account and clearing account are held by our partner Baader Bank AG.
Your money is held in your personal separate custody account at the Baader Bank AG.
The securities account is not accompanied by any running expenses.
Yes, you can transfer securities to your lemon.markets account. Please use the:
Account and custody account transfer form.
You can find this and other forms on our website under:
Please use the:
Account and custody account transfer" form.
You can find this and other forms on our website under:
Most likely this is because you already placed a sell or stop order for the respective instrument.
No, it is currently not intended that one person holds several securities accounts at the same time.
Corporate actions without an option, such as splits, are simply accounted for without any cost to you. If you receive pre-emptive rights, for example, these are automatically sold on the last trading day. This is also free of charge for you. If you wish to issue an instruction to exercise the pre-emptive rights, you can do so in writing. Please note, however, that in this case the costs for a written instruction will be incurred. When exercising rights, the bank also charges an additional fee according to the List of Prices and Services.
Yes, you can participate in general meetings of national stock companies. The company will contact you directly in case you own registered shares. Otherwise, we will send you a notification to your Postbox well before the deadline for ordering tickets. Please send your ticket orders to us through the ticket system.
Usually, you will receive a credit note in your account latest two business days after the transfer has been made.
As soon as you can see the transferred credit in your account you will be able to use it to, e.g. buy instruments.
The fee is in accordance with the List of Prices and Services of Baader Bank AG, but currently -0.00 % p.a.
You can only transfer money to the reference account because the connection with only one account will significantly increase safety.
You can withdraw money via the /account/withdraw/ endpoint. Please check our documentation for more information. Additionally, you can withdraw money to your reference account via the “wire money” tab in the lemon.markets app. You only need to indicate the amount you would like to wire out and it will be transferred to your reference account.
You can change your reference account by sending us a message in the lemon.markets mobile app. Or you can send an email to support@lemon.markets.
No, unfortunately, we are not offering accounts that are held in foreign currencies.
No, lemon.markets does not offer a securities loan.
No, we do not offer to open a current account with lemon.markets.
No, we do not offer the possibility of getting a debit card/ credit card with your lemon.markets account.
No, since we do not offer to open a current account with us and a clearing account does not have the possibility to set such a drawing limit/ credit line.
For every order that you request, we check whether your account is sufficiently covered and we only accept orders where the account at the point of our examination would not be overdrawn by the respective order. If it still happens that your account is overdrawn at some point you will get a notification informing you about the status and asking you to balance your account. For the time that the account is overdrawn, you will need to pay overdraft interest amounting to what is specified in the list of prices and services (Preis- und Leistungsverzeichnis).
You can find the prices and services directory in your Postbox within the lemon.markets app or on the lemon.markets website.
Yes, the incurred taxes will directly be paid to the tax authorities. You potentially receive a tax receipt at the end of the year. Tax exemptions or loss offset pots will be accounted for.
Source taxes will be paid and certified. However, we do not offer the service to reclaim the incurred source taxes for you.
You can set a maximum amount of 801€ during the account opening process in the lemon.markets app. You can change the amount later.
The processing time is usually no longer than a few business days. This can, however, be significantly longer when approaching the end of the year. You can view the tax allowance amount specified by you in the “Settings” of the lemon.markets app. This amount will also be retroactively considered for the ongoing year. For taxes that have already been paid a recalculation will be executed and when appropriate you will be refunded for paid taxes.
You will be able to change the previously set amount by contacting us through the lemon.markets app or by sending an email to support@lemon.markets.
No, there is no fee attached to crediting dividends.
Your securities are stored in your personal securities account and the clearing account will also be opened for you in cooperation with our partner Baader Bank. Capital in the clearing account is secured by the statutory deposit insurance for an amount up to 100.000 Euro. In addition protection is guaranteed by the deposit protection fund of the association of German banks.
Since we as lemon.markets do not have a banking license ourselves to operate in the regulated business of investment brokerage, we have joined DonauCapital as a tied agent. DonauCapital is a financial services institution that has all licenses from BaFin that are necessary for our business. As part of the affiliation, DonauCapital ensures that we conduct our business properly. The tied agent is a common constellation in the investment brokerage business. When forwarding your order from our systems to Baader Bank, we are conducting a banking transaction subject to licensing: investment brokerage. In our case, we provide this service in the name and for the account of DonauCapital Wertpapier GmbH, so that the activity is covered by its license.
The data transfer between the Baader Bank and lemon.markets as well as the storage of sensitive data is always encrypted. We only store and process your personal data within the EU and make sure that this is also the case for our partners.
To increase security when using lemon.markets it is important that you use an up to date hard- or software and strictly follow our security instructions. Also, you should never share any of your personal lemon.markets data such as your Login credentials or your API Keys.
When you suspect unauthorized access to your account, you can simply change your password on your own by choosing “Forgot password” when trying to log in to the account. In urgent cases, you must directly contact lemon.markets (a so-called blocking notification). You can do this directly via the API, by sending an email to support@lemon.markets, or via the support chat within the lemon.markets app. Further information on this can be found in our terms and conditions (Preis- und Leistungsverzeichnis) on the lemon.markets website.
As your credit and custody account holdings are stored under your name in accounts custody accounts at the Baader Bank, these are not subject to any insolvency measures. You can close and liquidate your custody account at any time.
A trading venue is a trading center that is connected to our API. You can specifically address a trading venue by specifying the Market Identifier Code (MIC).
At the moment, we offer the Munich Stock Exchange (XMUN). However, our API structure is designed in such a way that other trading venues can be added in the future.
The Munich Stock Exchange (XMUN) is open Monday to Friday from 8:00 - 22:00.
Currently, we focus on stocks and ETFs. You can easily find out whether an instrument is tradable via our /instruments endpoint.
An order is an instruction to a broker to buy or sell a particular instrument under certain conditions.
With the lemon.markets API you can place market, limit, stop market and stop limit orders.
You can place an order by sending a POST request to the /orders endpoint of our trading API. Learn more in our documentation.
You can see all orders by sending a GET request to the /orders endpoint. Read more in our documentation. You can also see all orders in the Dashboard and in the mobile app.
Orders can be deleted if they have not yet been executed (status: inactive or activated). To delete an order you have to send a DELETE request to the /orders/{order_id}/ endpoint. Read more in our documentation.
For buy orders, there is a minimum order volume of 50€.
In the Paper Trading API there is no maximum order volume either, but the creation of new orders is limited to 100 per day.
Your positions consist of all the instruments you have acquired through buy orders, minus sell orders. This means that whenever you send a buy/sell POST request to the /orders endpoint, once the order is activated and executed, the overview of your positions will adjust accordingly.
You can see your positions by sending a GET request to the /positions endpoint. Read more in our documentation. You can also see your positions when you log into the Dashboard.
The Market Data API gives you access to historical and real-time market data of all instruments tradable on lemon.markets.
We provide historical and real-time market data in open-high-low-close (OHLC), historical and real-time quotes and historical and real-time trades.
You can retrieve historical market data for a specific instrument by sending a GET request to one of the relevant endpoints, specifying the International Security Identification Number (ISIN). Find out more in our documentation.
In order to live stream market data, you can simply use our streaming offer. You can find more information in our documentation.
There are various ways to integrate market data into your own trading strategy. On our blog we present various ideas and concepts - get inspired.
On our blog you can get some inspiration and background information. On our GitHub profile, we regularly publish projects that give you an easy introduction to the lemon.markets API. You can also find step-by-step coding tutorials on our YouTube channel. Learn more in our documentation.
Yes, in our documentation we collect SDKs in different programming languages to help you get started with the lemon.markets API.
Yes! lemon.markets is from developers for developers. Contact support@lemon.markets to discuss how you can turn a project or idea into a resource to help other users get started.
You can email us at support@lemon.markets, contact us via chat at the lower right of the lemon.markets website or join our Slack Workspace and ask a question in one of the channels.
You can reach us via our Slack Workspace or by email at support@lemon.markets.
No, so far we only offer written support. But we do it very fast & diligently.
No, the focus of lemon.markets is to provide a stable and easy-to-use API that allows everyone to build their own trading product on the stock market. However, we do provide several resources to help you get started with our API and your first project. Learn more in our documentation.
Notice: The Live Trading API will be shut down 2023-03-16. We stopped to onboard new customers to the product and ask all existing customers to relocate their assets, so the brokerage accounts can be closed: Live Trading Shutdown FAQ. Paper trading and market data will remain available.
This page is supposed to answer all of your questions regarding our API, contracts, functionalities, etc.. In case your question could not be answered by the answers below feel free to contact us at support@lemon.markets at any time.
