Signals context API
How Barfinex provides higher-timeframe context and order-flow aggregates to Detector strategies.
Note: This page describes the platform capability used by automated Detector strategies. It is separate from editorial Market Signals shown on instrument pages.
What this is for
Barfinex supports a context + trigger approach:
- Higher-timeframe candles provide regime, bias, levels, and zones of interest.
- Intraday order flow and order book aggregates help with entry timing.
- Risk and exit context can be derived from zones, liquidity, and volatility.
Provider publishes the current signals-context contract through OpenAPI. Use the OpenAPI document for exact methods, parameters, and response fields.
Main data groups
- Candles: higher-timeframe market context and cache-aware refresh support.
- Order flow: aggregate trigger metrics such as volume, delta, CVD, VWAP, and absorption-style features.
- Order book: spread, mid price, imbalance, and liquidity wall summaries.
- Context features: compact bias, regime, level, and zone summaries for detectors.
How detectors use it
- Detectors combine context and trigger signals to avoid trades against the broader regime and to size risk around relevant zones.
- Advisor does not consume market context. It only verifies the immutable candidate and signed Provider evidence required by its admission policy.
For exact API details, see Provider API reference. For architecture, see Barfinex architecture.