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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
| Type | text |
| Group | Volume |
| Category | Relative & unusual volume |
| Update cadence | post-close daily |
| Intervals | 1d |
| Universe | all tickers |
| History | partial — incomplete depth · since 2003 |
| Nullable | yes — 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.