Important Upcoming API changes to Volatility Indices

michael_mueller

These changes are expected to be live on 4th November 2019.

We will be regrouping the following symbols into a new market category called 'synthetic_index':

• 1HZ100V
• 1HZ10V
• BOOM1000
• BOOM500
• CRASH1000
• CRASH500
• RDBEAR
• RDBULL
• R_10
• R_100
• R_25
• R_50
• R_75

Please make the necessary changes in your applications. Here are the affected API calls:

Active Symbols

The response currently returned by our API:

...
{
      "allow_forward_starting": 1,
      "display_name": "Volatility 25 Index",
      "exchange_is_open": 1,
      "is_trading_suspended": 0,
      "market": "volidx",
      "market_display_name": "Volatility Indices",
      "pip": 0.001,
      "submarket": "random_index",
      "submarket_display_name": "Continuous Indices",
      "symbol": "R_25",
      "symbol_type": "stockindex"
},
...

The response returned after the changes:

...
{
      "allow_forward_starting": 1,
      "display_name": "Volatility 25 Index",
      "exchange_is_open": 1,
      "is_trading_suspended": 0,
      "market": "synthetic_index",
      "market_display_name": "Synthetic Indices",
      "pip": 0.001,
      "submarket": "random_index",
      "submarket_display_name": "Continuous Indices",
      "symbol": "R_25",
      "symbol_type": "stockindex"
},
...

Contracts For Symbol

The response currently returned by our API:

...
{
        "barrier": "+2.3555",
        "barrier_category": "euro_non_atm",
        "barriers": 1,
        "contract_category": "callput",
        "contract_category_display": "Up/Down",
        "contract_display": "Lower",
        "contract_type": "PUT",
        "exchange_name": "RANDOM",
        "expiry_type": "intraday",
        "market": "volidx",
        "max_contract_duration": "1d",
        "min_contract_duration": "15s",
        "sentiment": "down",
        "start_type": "spot",
        "submarket": "random_index",
        "underlying_symbol": "R_50"
},
...

The response returned after the changes:

...
{
        "barrier": "+2.3555",
        "barrier_category": "euro_non_atm",
        "barriers": 1,
        "contract_category": "callput",
        "contract_category_display": "Up/Down",
        "contract_display": "Lower",
        "contract_type": "PUT",
        "exchange_name": "RANDOM",
        "expiry_type": "intraday",
        "market": "synthetic_index",
        "max_contract_duration": "1d",
        "min_contract_duration": "15s",
        "sentiment": "down",
        "start_type": "spot",
        "submarket": "random_index",
        "underlying_symbol": "R_50"
},
...

Landing Company details

The response currently returned by our API:

...
"legal_allowed_markets": [
      "commodities",
      "forex",
      "indices",
      "volidx"
    ],
...

The response returned after the changes:

...
"legal_allowed_markets": [
      "commodities",
      "forex",
      "indices",
      "synthetic_index"
    ],
...

Trading durations

The response currently returned by our API:

{       
  "symbol": [
        {
          "display_name": "Bear Market Index",
          "name": "RDBEAR"
        },
        {
          "display_name": "Bull Market Index",
          "name": "RDBULL"
        }
      ],
  "trade_durations": [
        {
          "durations": [
            {
              "display_name": "Ticks",
              "max": 10,
              "min": 1,
              "name": "ticks"
        },
     ...
        ]                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  ],    
  "market": {
    display_name": "Volatility Indices",
    "name": "volidx"
  },    
  "submarket": {
    "display_name": "Daily Reset Indices",
    "name": "random_daily"
  }     
}  

The response returned after the changes:

{       
  "symbol": [
        {
          "display_name": "Bear Market Index",
          "name": "RDBEAR"
        },
        {
          "display_name": "Bull Market Index",
          "name": "RDBULL"
        }
      ],
  "trade_durations": [
        {
          "durations": [
            {
              "display_name": "Ticks",
              "max": 10,
              "min": 1,
              "name": "ticks"
        },
     ...
        ]                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  ],    
  "market": {
    "display_name": "Synthetic Indices",
    "name": "synthetic_index"
  },    
  "submarket": {
    "display_name": "Daily Reset Indices",
    "name": "random_daily"
  }     
}