get_lsratio: Get the long to short ratio of a cryptocurrency pair

In cryptoQuotes: Open Access to Cryptocurrency Market Data, Sentiment Indicators and Interactive Charts

Get the long to short ratio of a cryptocurrency pair

Description

Get the long-short ratio for any available_tickers() from the available_exchanges()

Usage

get_lsratio(
   ticker,
   interval = '1d',
   source   = 'binance',
   from     = NULL,
   to       = NULL,
   top      = FALSE
)

Arguments

ticker	A character-vector of length 1. See available_tickers() for available tickers.
interval	A character-vector of length 1. ⁠1d⁠ by default. See available_intervals() for available intervals.
source	A character-vector of length 1. binance by default. See available_exchanges() for available exchanges.
from	An optional character-, date- or POSIXct-vector of length 1. NULL by default.
to	An optional character-, date- or POSIXct-vector of length 1. NULL by default.
top	A logical vector. FALSE by default. If TRUE it returns the top traders Long-Short ratios.

Details

On time-zones and dates

Values passed to ⁠from`` or ⁠to⁠must be coercible by [as.Date()], or [as.POSIXct()], with a format of either⁠"%Y-%m-%d"or"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"'. By default all dates are passed and returned with Sys.timezone().

On returns

If only from is provided 200 pips are returned up to Sys.time(). If only to is provided 200 pips up to the specified date is returned.

Value

An xts::xts-object containing,

index	<POSIXct> the time-index
long	<numeric> the share of longs
short	<numeric> the share of shorts
ls_ratio	<numeric> the ratio of longs to shorts

Sample output

#>                       long  short  ls_ratio
#> 2024-05-12 02:00:00 0.6930 0.3070 2.2573290
#> 2024-05-13 02:00:00 0.6637 0.3363 1.9735355
#> 2024-05-14 02:00:00 0.5555 0.4445 1.2497188
#> 2024-05-15 02:00:00 0.6580 0.3420 1.9239766
#> 2024-05-16 02:00:00 0.4868 0.5132 0.9485581
#> 2024-05-17 02:00:00 0.5102 0.4898 1.0416497

Author(s)

Jonas Cuzulan Hirani

See Also

Other get-functions: get_fgindex(), get_fundingrate(), get_openinterest(), get_quote()

Examples

## Not run: 
  # script start;

  LS_BTC <- cryptoQuotes::get_lsratio(
    ticker   = 'BTCUSDT',
    interval = '15m',
    from     = Sys.Date() - 1,
    to       = Sys.Date()
  )

  # end of scrtipt;

## End(Not run)

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