Qstick

The Qstick Indicator is a technical analysis indicator developed by Tushar Chande to numerically identify trends in candlestick charting. It is calculated by taking an ‘n’ period moving average of the difference between the open and closing prices. A Qstick value greater than zero means that the majority of the last ‘n’ days have been up, indicating that buying pressure has been increasing. In summary, the measure provides an approximation for a security’s exponential moving average (or EMA), opening price, closing price, and their difference, as well as these values simple moving averages (or SMA).

Get started with the qstick

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

			[GET] https://api.taapi.io/qstick?secret=MY_SECRET&exchange=binance&symbol=BTC/USDT&interval=1h&period=50

API response

The qstick endpoint returns a JSON response like this:

			{
  "value": 175.5685714285719
}
Example response from TAAPI.IO when querying qstick 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 qstick value X amount of candles back. So, if you are fetching the qstick on the hourly and you want to know what the qstick 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
Required Float

More examples

Let's say you want to know the qstick 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/qstick?secret=MY_SECRET&exchange=binance&symbol=BTC/USDT&interval=30m&period=50&backtrack=1
Get qstick values on each of the past X candles in one call

Let's say you want to know what the qstick 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/qstick?secret=MY_SECRET&exchange=binance&symbol=BTC/USDT&interval=1d&period=50&results=10

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