Intelligence Pre Trade
by Pre-trade check in Markets & finance
Pre-trade check: should I buy or sell this now? Returns a verdict (FAVORABLE, CAUTION, UNFAVORABLE) with a score and its checks - order flow, momentum, volatility, adverse market events, market regime, news or material filings from the last 24h, plus on-chain slippage of a $1k/$10k/$50k order and a liquidity score. Use right before placing a trade.
GET https://api.marketintelligenceapi.com/api/v1/intelligence/pre-trade
Last 30 days
Status and outage history · Atom feed
- Uptime
- 100%
- Response time
- 174 ms typical, 312 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- 1 h ago
- Next check
- any minute now
How to call it
GET https://api.marketintelligenceapi.com/api/v1/intelligence/pre-trade
Each call costs $0.005 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
Built from the input schema. Replace the values with your own.
GET https://api.marketintelligenceapi.com/api/v1/intelligence/pre-trade?symbol=exampleParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
side | string | No | Intended trade direction. One of: buy, sell. Default: "buy". |
symbol | string | Yes | Asset symbol, e.g. ETHUSD, BTCUSD, NVDA, TSLA. |
window | string | No | Signal window (1m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h, 24h). Default: "5m". |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"checks": [
{
"check": "order_flow",
"detail": "Buy pressure is 61.3% of aggressor volume",
"status": "PASS"
}
],
"disclaimer": "Informational market signal derived from observed trade flow; not investment advice.",
"reasons": [
"Unusual activity (anomaly 74/100): expect wider moves",
"Market regime is BEARISH"
],
"score": 80,
"side": "BUY",
"snapshot": {
"buyPressure": 61.3,
"momentumScore": 64.2,
"price": 2668.42,
"signal": "BUYING_ACTIVITY"
},
"symbol": "ETHUSD",
"verdict": "CAUTION",
"window": "5m"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.005.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.marketintelligenceapi.com/api/v1/intelligence/pre-trade?symbol=example'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.marketintelligenceapi.com/api/v1/intelligence/pre-trade?symbol=example' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.005 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.005" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.005 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.marketintelligenceapi.com%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fintelligence%2Fpre-trade
const res = await pay("https://api.marketintelligenceapi.com/api/v1/intelligence/pre-trade?symbol=example");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.005 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.005"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://api.marketintelligenceapi.com/api/v1/intelligence/pre-trade?symbol=example")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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