# etf_inception_date

Date the fund launched. ETFs only.

A date signal column on the Tickerbot computed state table (21,963+ ticker rows) — computed by the platform, queryable by bare name across the API. Values are NULL on rows the signal doesn't apply to.

- Group: Profile
- Category: Fund facts
- Type: date
- Update cadence: post-close daily
- Intervals: 1d
- Universe: all tickers
- History: recent only (forward-only from first computation)
- Nullable: yes

## Query it

Every applicable form factor, grouped by endpoint family. Response payloads are real captures, sampled 2026-09-18 and trimmed; your run's values and dates will differ.

### The whole market, filtered on it — `/v2/scan` (https://tickerbot.io/docs/endpoints/scan.md)

#### Live — the whole market, ranked by this column

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{ "q": "etf_inception_date IS NOT NULL", "order": "etf_inception_date", "columns": "etf_inception_date" }'
```

#### As-of — the same scan at a past date

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  -d '{ "q": "etf_inception_date IS NOT NULL", "order": "etf_inception_date", "columns": "etf_inception_date", "asof": "2026-07-01" }'
```

### Its history — `/v2/series` (https://tickerbot.io/docs/endpoints/series.md)

#### History — the column on an aligned time grid

```bash
curl "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/series?tickers=AAPL,MSFT&columns=close,etf_inception_date" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
```

## Related signals (Fund facts)

- [etf_dividend_yield](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/etf_dividend_yield.md)
- [etf_expense_ratio](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/etf_expense_ratio.md)
- [etf_leveraged](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/etf_leveraged.md)
- [etf_net_assets](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/etf_net_assets.md)
- [etf_turnover](https://tickerbot.io/docs/signals/etf_turnover.md)

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