Hourly sentiment data via API

[ManpreetWV]

Are there any plans to update the rest API to include the data provided by IG on sentiment by the last hour?

On the trading app we get 

56% sells in last hour ...

 

Can we access this data via REST API?

 

[ManpreetWV]

Bump , any idea ?

[mf2]

I believe the hourly sentiment is actually what you get at the `/sentiment` endpoint: https://labs.ig.com/rest-trading-api-reference/service-detail?id=655

But at least for the DE40 it’s not very interesting; over the past couple of trading days, the sentiment was always either 52/48 or 53/47. It would be nice if even more sentiment data would be included, i.e. what you see in the trading interface.

[codeguru]

from my own experience the "sentiment" is not quite reliable.... if it's 50/50 this indicates high volatility, there you can make profit from scalping but not with a long term invest. On commodities the limits are quite tight, on Forex even tighter because the leverage is higher... and the volatility is enemy of all stop loss limits. On XAGUSD I sometime put a 15 point take profit and 30 point stop loss beacuse the volaitliy is that high that it will kill any thight limits, thereby loosing money... 

Also in the evening it is often 75% long and 25% short. Remind  - It is abount open positions, open positions do have overnight fees on CFD variants, so numbers decline at the evening. And stocks do have their "own" mind... When Elon Musk tweets the Musk stocks go 20% up or down, when some commonly known anonymous traders on Reddit or X say "we buy gamestop" then Gamestop rises... 

Edited May 30 by codeguru