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volume_trend_5d

Slope of daily volume regressed over the last 5 trading days. Positive = building, negative = drying.

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At a glance

Typetext
GroupVolume
CategoryRelative & unusual volume
Update cadencepost-close daily
Intervals1d
Universeall tickers
Historypartial — incomplete depth · since 2003
Nullableyes — NULL where not applicable

Trading activity relative to baseline: relative volume, bursts, unusual-volume flags, liquidity conditions.

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=volume_trend_5d IS NOT NULL" \
  -d "order=volume_trend_5d" -d "columns=volume_trend_5d" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-18T00:26:04.820Z",
 "query": {
  "q": "volume_trend_5d IS NOT NULL",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "volume_trend_5d",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "volume_trend_5d"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 2,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "AAAA",
   "name": "Amplius Aggressive Asset Allocation ETF",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "ETF",
   "price": 30.97,
   "day_change_pct": 0.0001,
   "gap_pct": 0.0004,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": null,
   "volume_trend_5d": "increasing"
  },
  {
   "ticker": "AACBR",
   "name": "Artius II Acquisition Inc. Rights",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "RIGHT",
   "price": 0.0158,
   "day_change_pct": 0.3167,
   "gap_pct": 0.6583,
   "relative_volume": null,
   "market_cap": null,
   "volume_trend_5d": "increasing"
  }
 ]
}
As-of — the same scan at a past date
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
  --data-urlencode "q=volume_trend_5d IS NOT NULL" \
  -d "order=volume_trend_5d" -d "columns=volume_trend_5d" \
  -d "asof=2026-05-20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-05-20",
 "query": {
  "q": "volume_trend_5d IS NOT NULL",
  "asof": "2026-05-20",
  "interval": "auto",
  "limit": 2,
  "order": "volume_trend_5d",
  "dir": "desc",
  "fields": [
   "volume_trend_5d"
  ],
  "full": false,
  "universe": null,
  "asset_class": null
 },
 "count": 1,
 "results": [
  {
   "ticker": "AAPL",
   "name": "Apple Inc.",
   "asset_class": "stocks",
   "asset_type": "CS",
   "price": 302.25,
   "day_change_pct": 1.0971000434826144,
   "gap_pct": -0.2642405592534436,
   "relative_volume": 0.8301142035669002,
   "market_cap": 4450895114250,
   "volume_trend_5d": "flat"
  }
 ]
}

Use series /v2/series

Its history over time, on one aligned grid. Docs →

History — the column on an aligned time grid
curl "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/series?tickers=AAPL,MSFT&columns=close,volume_trend_5d" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-18T00:26:07.250Z",
 "interval": "1d",
 "tickers": [
  "AAPL",
  "MSFT"
 ],
 "columns": [
  "close",
  "volume_trend_5d"
 ],
 "count": 6,
 "series": {
  "AAPL": [
   {
    "t": "2026-08-12",
    "close": 302.25,
    "volume_trend_5d": "decreasing"
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-08-13",
    "close": 305.26,
    "volume_trend_5d": "decreasing"
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-08-14",
    "close": 305.93,
    "volume_trend_5d": "flat"
   }
  ],
  "MSFT": [
   {
    "t": "2026-08-12",
    "close": 492.43,
    "volume_trend_5d": "decreasing"
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-08-13",
    "close": 496.88,
    "volume_trend_5d": "decreasing"
   },
   {
    "t": "2026-08-14",
    "close": 495.4,
    "volume_trend_5d": "decreasing"
   }
  ]
 }
}

Same grammar on scan, series, and webhooks; state reads take ?asof= for point-in-time answers.

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