# Get PrepPositions for an User Account

A <mark style="color:yellow;">perpetual position</mark> in a perpetual market refers to a trader's open position in a perpetual futures contract. This position can be either ***long*** (betting that the price of the underlying asset will increase) or ***short*** (betting that the price will decrease). We can query PerpPositions data for a particular marketIndex via SuperIndexer using the following steps:&#x20;

* We query the *user account* details for an *`authority`* (user wallet)&#x20;
* The user account details will contain *perpPositions* for the user. We need to filter positions where either the *`baseAssetAmount`* or *`quoteAssetAmount`* or the *`lpShares`* is not equal to zero(these are all perpPosition fields). Also, the *`openOrders`* field should not equal to zero.&#x20;
* Once done, finally we filter the final list of positions while matching *`marketIndex`* field.&#x20;

You can directly copy paste this code on <mark style="color:yellow;">replit</mark> and see it in action.

#### Fetch perpPosition for a User Account by authority and market index

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```javascript
const BN = require("bn.js");
const SHYFT_API_KEY = "YOUR-API-KEY";
const ZERO = new BN(0);

async function getperpPositionDataByGraphQl(authorityAddress) {
  const operationsDoc = `
        query MyQuery {
            drift_User(
                where: {authority: {_eq: ${JSON.stringify(authorityAddress)}}}
            ) {
                perpPositions
                authority
            }
        }
      `; //graphQl query
  const result = await fetch(
    `https://programs.shyft.to/v0/graphql/accounts?api_key=${SHYFT_API_KEY}&network=mainnet-beta`, //SHYFT's GQL endpoint
    {
      method: "POST",
      body: JSON.stringify({
        query: operationsDoc,
        variables: {},
        operationName: "MyQuery",
      }),
    }
  );

  return await result.json();
}

async function main(authorityPubkey, marketIndex) {
  const { errors, data } = await getperpPositionDataByGraphQl(authorityPubkey);
  if (errors) {
    console.error(errors);
    console.log("Some Error Occured, please check your API key or try again");
  }
  let allMatchedMarkets = [];
  for (let index = 0; index < data.drift_User.length; index++) {
    const currentPerpPosition = data.drift_User[index];

    const matchedMarkets = currentPerpPosition.perpPositions.filter(
      (perpPosition) =>
        !new BN(perpPosition.baseAssetAmount).eq(ZERO) ||
        !new BN(perpPosition.quoteAssetAmount).eq(ZERO) ||
        !(perpPosition.openOrders == 0) ||
        !new BN(perpPosition.lpShares).eq(ZERO)
    );
    if (matchedMarkets) {
      matchedMarkets.forEach((mMar) => {
        allMatchedMarkets.push(mMar);
      });
    }
  }
  if(!allMatchedMarkets.length){
    console.log("No perpPostions found");
    return
  }
  console.log("PerpPositions found: ");
  console.dir(allMatchedMarkets.find(m => m.marketIndex == marketIndex),{depth: null});
  
}
main("BgGAVukE1j8JDsvXwcnneuoN8LTpDuiRUtYfQWociQjL", 2);

```

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```json

PerpPositions found:
{
  lpShares: '0',
  openAsks: '0',
  openBids: '0',
  perLpBase: 0,
  openOrders: 1,
  settledPnl: '-12993115',
  marketIndex: 2,
  baseAssetAmount: '-1500000000',
  quoteAssetAmount: '3585448868',
  quoteEntryAmount: '3573160286',
  quoteBreakEvenAmount: '3572455753',
  lastBaseAssetAmountPerLp: '0',
  remainderBaseAssetAmount: 0,
  lastCumulativeFundingRate: '956085947061',
  lastQuoteAssetAmountPerLp: '0'
}
```

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