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GET markets/candles/:id

Retrieves historical market data in the form of OHLC candlesticks for a specified symbol.

This call is limited to returning 2,000 candlesticks in a single response.

Request parameters

ParameterTypeDescription
id
integer
Internal symbol identifier.
Can occur in the ‘location’ header only.
startTime
DateTime
Beginning of the candlestick range.
endTime
DateTime
End of the candlestick range.
interval
Enumeration
Interval of a single candlestick.
See Historical Data Granularity for all allowed values.

Response properties

PropertyTypeDescription
candles
Complex
List of Candle records.
Candle
Complex
 
start
DateTime
Candlestick start timestamp (in ISO format).
end
DateTime
Candlestick end timestamp (in ISO format).
open
Double
Opening price.
high
Double
High price.
low
Double
Low price.
close
Double
Closing price.
volume
Integer
Trading volume.

Sample request

        
GET https://api01.iq.questrade.com/v1/markets/candles/38738?startTime=2014-10-01T00:00:00-05:00&endTime=2014-10-20T23:59:59-05:00&interval=OneDay

Sample JSON response:


 {
     "candles": [
         {
             "start": "2014-01-02T00:00:00.000000-05:00",
             "end": "2014-01-03T00:00:00.000000-05:00",
             "low": 70.3,
             "high": 70.78,
             "open": 70.68,
             "close": 70.73,
             "volume": 983609
         },
              ...
      ]
 }
   

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