Perpetuals API

One coin's RSI, MACD, moving averages, ATR and TD across timeframes

A coin's technical indicators as they read now — RSI, MACD with its signal line, simple and exponential moving averages, average true range and TD Sequential — one reading per timeframe.

GET/api/external/perps/derivatives-technicals/{symbol}

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What it returns

One coin's technical indicators as they read right now: rsi, macd, ma, ema, atr and td, each with one reading per timeframe. The indicators do not share a timeframe set — rsi is published at 15m, 1h, 4h, 12h, 24h and 1w, and the other five at 1m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 4h, 1d and 1w — so each block carries its own, labelled exactly as the source labels it. Every block says what its numbers ARE in unit, because they are not alike: rsi is a 0-100 index, ma, ema, atr and macd are prices in the quote currency, and td is a signed bar count. signal is the MACD signal line and is null on every other indicator. Omit indicator for all six; naming one answers that one alone, for a sixth of the cost. No price is published here: two of the underlying reads, taken seconds apart, stated the same coin 0.14% apart, so no single price here would be THE price — ask price or price-change for that. symbol is the coin ticker, matched case-insensitively; the source's futures list is neither crypto-only nor scoped to any of this API's chains — so a ticker answering here says nothing about a token on a chain — and a handful of its tickers are not written in Latin letters.

Chains

This endpoint is not tied to a chain: it takes no chain in its request.

Request

Send your key in the x-dex-data-key header. Replace each <placeholder> with a real value.

curl -H "x-dex-data-key: $DEXDATA_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.dexdata.io/api/external/perps/derivatives-technicals/<symbol>"

Parameters
Parameter	Description
`indicator` query · string · optional	Answer one indicator instead of all six: `rsi` (relative strength index), `macd` (moving average convergence divergence, with its signal line), `ma` (simple moving average), `ema` (exponential moving average), `atr` (average true range) or `td` (TD Sequential). Omitted, every indicator is answered, which costs six upstream calls rather than one.`rsimacdmaemaatrtd`
`symbol` path · string · required	The futures symbol, which is a coin ticker, e.g. "BTC", "ETH" or "SOL" — not an instrument id, and not a token mint or contract address. Case-insensitive.

Response fields

A JSON response. Every field is always present; null means the value could not be established, never zero.

Response fields of One coin's RSI, MACD, moving averages, ATR and TD across timeframes
Field	Type	Description
`symbol`	string	The coin, upper-cased (e.g. "BTC").
`indicators`	object[]	One block per indicator asked for: all six in the order above when `indicator` is omitted, otherwise the one named. A block whose indicator the source states nothing for on this coin comes back with an empty `readings` rather than being dropped, so the shape does not change with coverage. When NOTHING asked for has a reading there is no answer at all — that is the 404, not a list of empty blocks.
`indicators[].indicator`	string	Which indicator this block reads.
`indicators[].unit`	string	What the numbers are: `index` is a 0-100 oscillator, `price` is the quote currency (for `macd`, a difference of two price averages), `count` is a signed bar count. Compare values across indicators only inside the same unit.
`indicators[].readings`	object[]	One reading per timeframe the source stated, in ascending bucket width. A timeframe it stated nothing for is left out rather than sent as an empty slot.
`indicators[].readings[].timeframe`	string	The bucket width, exactly as the source labels it. `rsi` labels its daily reading `24h`; the other indicators label theirs `1d`. The two are not published as one, because their equivalence was never measured.
`indicators[].readings[].value`	number \| null	The indicator's value, in `unit`.
`indicators[].readings[].signal`	number \| null	MACD's signal line. Null on every other indicator, and null on MACD's shortest width, which the source sends without one.

Price per call

Every call: 33 credits

Charged only when the call succeeds. Prices as of 2026-10-30; the current ones are always in the API reference.

How much has this token's price changed over a chosen window?
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Indicator history for one derivatives instrument: RSI, MACD, Bollinger, ATR, TD
The same indicators as they read NOW, for a coin across timeframes, in one call.
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The market-wide derivatives indices by day, with one coin's whale index
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Max-pain liquidation level, per coin
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Price change and swing amplitude across short timeframes, per coin
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