Market

market(date_format, output_format)

Parameters

  • date_format (default: timestamp) - Specifies how timestamps should be should be returned. Set to one of the following:
    • timestamp - default; Does not alter IEX API output.
    • datetime - Datetime object.
    • isoformat - Converts to isoformat.
  • output_format - The format to output. Options:
    • dataframe (default) - Return result as a pandas dataframe.
    • json - Return raw result converted from JSON to a python data structure.

market

Certain API calls return market-wide data. For example, it might return data on stock prices for all stocks or a list of stocks based on a particular metric (e.g. performance, gainers, losers).

Market Methods: List items

IEX API - List open_in_new

mostactive()

Example

from iex import market
market.mostactive()
   avgTotalVolume calculationPrice  change  changePercent    close  \
0          494020              sip  0.0500        0.00126  39.8000
1       124752351              sip -0.0052       -0.15249   0.0341
2        50816723             tops  0.4100        0.03293  12.4500
3         8446078             tops  3.0100        0.10057  29.9300
4        44161998             tops  2.2050        0.04083  54.0100
5        64003399             tops  0.6900        0.01485  46.4800

gainers()

losers()

iexvolume()

iexpercent()

Market Methods: Additional

threshold_securities()

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short_interest()

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news()

IEX API - News open_in_new

Parameters

  • last (default: 10) - Number of stories to return between 1 and 50.

ohlc()

IEX API - News open_in_new

previous()

IEX API - News open_in_new

Example

from iex import market
market.previous()
     symbol  change changePercent   close        date     high     low  \
0         A   -6.71        -9.695    62.5  2018-05-15     64.1    60.7
1        AA   -1.79        -3.421   50.54  2018-05-15    51.95    50.4
2      AABA    -0.3        -0.391   76.44  2018-05-15    76.46    75.4
3       AAC    0.02         0.176    11.4  2018-05-15    11.52   11.19
4      AADR    0.52         0.888   59.08  2018-05-15  59.1785   58.02
5       AAL    0.73         1.719   43.19  2018-05-15     43.4    41.6

market()

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Returns near real time traded volume on the markets.