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ticker_category

Sub-class within an asset class, e.g. treasury_curve or policy_rate.

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At a glance

Typetext
GroupProfile
CategoryClassification
Update cadencepost-close daily
Universeall tickers
Historynone — live row only, not historized (no as-of reads)
Nullableyes — NULL where not applicable

Categorical facts: sector, industry, SIC, exchange, country, currency, asset class and sub-class.

Query it

Every applicable form factor, grouped by endpoint family. Swap YOUR_KEY for the value from /dashboard/keys. Response payloads are real captures, sampled 2026-08-18 and trimmed — your run's values and dates will differ.

Use scan /v2/scan

The whole market through a WHERE clause — this signal composed freely with any other column. Docs →

Live — the whole market, ranked by this column
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  --data-urlencode "q=ticker_category IS NOT NULL" \
  -d "order=ticker_category" -d "columns=ticker_category" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-18T00:25:59.655Z",
 "query": {
  "q": "ticker_category IS NOT NULL",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "ticker_category",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "ticker_category"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "R:UST10Y",
   "name": "10-Year Treasury Note Yield",
   "asset_class": "rates",
   "asset_type": null,
   "price": 4.72,
   "day_change_pct": null,
   "gap_pct": null,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": null,
   "ticker_category": "treasury_curve"
  },
  {
   "ticker": "R:UST1M",
   "name": "1-Month Treasury Bill Yield",
   "asset_class": "rates",
   "asset_type": null,
   "price": 3.79,
   "day_change_pct": null,
   "gap_pct": null,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": null,
   "ticker_category": "treasury_curve"
  }
 ]
}

Same grammar on scan and webhooks. This column is live-tense only — it isn't historized, so ?asof= reads and series pulls don't carry it.

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