Bollinger Bands

The Bollinger Bands is a popular technical indicator used by traders in financial markets to analyze price volatility and potential trend reversals. It consists of three lines plotted on a price chart: the upper band, the middle band, and the lower band. The middle band represents the moving average of the underlying asset’s price over a specified period, typically 20 candles (adjustable using the optional period parameter).

Bollinger Bands via API from TAAPI.IO
Bollinger Bands via API from TAAPI.IO

The upper and lower bands are placed a certain number of standard deviations away from the middle band, usually two standard deviations. The result returned in the given format provides the numerical values for the upper band, middle band, and lower band.

Traders can use Bollinger Bands to identify periods of low volatility (when the bands are narrow) and high volatility (when the bands widen). When the price touches or moves beyond the upper band, it suggests that the asset may be overbought, potentially indicating a selling opportunity. Conversely, when the price reaches or falls below the lower band, it suggests oversold conditions, potentially signalling a buying opportunity. Traders often look for price reversals or bounces off the bands to make trading decisions and assess potential price targets and stop-loss levels.

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Get Bollinger Bands via API

We provide API access to the Bollinger Bands values for all of the most popular assets like stocks, crypto (try one of the popular exchanges like Binance) and forex, on all commonly used timeframes – from the weekly and daily all the way down to one minute intervals. You can also calculate the values on your own data using our manual method.

Get started with the bbands

Simply make an HTTPS [GET] request or call in your browser:

			[GET] https://api.taapi.io/bbands?secret=MY_SECRET&exchange=binance&symbol=BTC/USDT&interval=1h

API response

The bbands endpoint returns a JSON response like this:

			{
  "valueUpperBand": 23491.10808422158,
  "valueMiddleBand": 21935.281499999997,
  "valueLowerBand": 20379.454915778413
}
Example response from TAAPI.IO when querying bbands endpoint.

API parameters

secret
Required String
The secret which is emailed to you when you request an API key.
exchange
Required String
The exchange you want to calculate the indicator from: binance, binancefutures or one of our supported exchanges. For other crypto / stock exchanges, please refer to our Client or Manual integration methods.
symbol
Required String
Symbol names are always uppercase, with the coin separated by a forward slash and the market: COIN/MARKET. For example: BTC/USDT Bitcoin to Tether, or LTC/BTC Litecoin to Bitcoin...
interval
Required String
Interval or time frame: We support the following time frames: 1m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 2h, 4h, 12h, 1d, 1w. So if you're interested in values on hourly candles, use interval=1h, for daily values use interval=1d, etc.
backtrack
Optional Integer
The backtrack parameter removes candles from the data set and calculates the bbands value X amount of candles back. So, if you are fetching the bbands on the hourly and you want to know what the bbands was 5 hours ago, set backtrack=5. The default is 0.
chart
Optional String
The chart parameter accepts one of two values: candles or heikinashi. candles is the default, but if you set this to heikinashi, the indicator values will be calculated using Heikin Ashi candles. Note: Pro & Expert Plans only.
addResultTimestamp
Optional Boolean
true or false. Defaults to false. By setting to true the API will return a timestamp with every result (real-time and backtracked) to which candle the value corresponds. This is especially helpful when requesting a series of historical values using the results parameter.
fromTimestamp
New Optional String
The start of the time range in Unix epoch time. For example: 1685577600
toTimestamp
New Optional String
The end of the time range in Unix epoch time. For example: 1731456000 If you only use fromTimestamp, the API will return all results from that time until present.
gaps
Optional Boolean
true or false. Defaults to true. By setting to false, the API will ensure that there are no candles missing. This often happens on lower timeframes in thin markets. Gaps will be filled by a new candle with 0 volume, and OHLC set the the close price of the latest candle with volume.
results
New Optional String
number or max. Use this parameter to access historical values on the past X candles until the most recent candle. Use max to return all available historical values. Returns an array with the oldest value on top and most recent value returned the last.
period
Optional Integer

The period length (number of candles) to consider in the data set.

Default: 20

stddev
Optional Float

Standard deviation value of the price.

Default: 2

More examples

Let's say you want to know the bbands value on the last closed candle on the 30m timeframe. You are not interest in the real-time value, so you use the backtrack=1 optional parameter to go back 1 candle in history to the last closed candle.

				[GET] https://api.taapi.io/bbands?secret=MY_SECRET&exchange=binance&symbol=BTC/USDT&interval=30m&backtrack=1
Get bbands values on each of the past X candles in one call

Let's say you want to know what the bbands daily value was each day for the previous 10 days. You can get this returned by our API easily and efficiently in one call using the results=10 parameter:

				[GET] https://api.taapi.io/bbands?secret=MY_SECRET&exchange=binance&symbol=BTC/USDT&interval=1d&results=10

Looking for even more integration examples in different languages like NodeJS, PHP, Python, Curl or Ruby? Continue to [GET] REST - Direct documentation.