{cryptoQuotes}: Open access to cryptocurrency market data

:information_source: About

{cryptoQuotes} is a high-level API client for accessing public market data endpoints on major cryptocurrency exchanges. It supports open, high, low, close and volume (OHLC-V) data and a variety of sentiment indicators; the market data is high quality and can be retrieved in intervals ranging from seconds to months. All the market data is accessed and processed without relying on crawlers, or API keys, ensuring an open, and reliable, access for researchers, traders and students alike. There are currently 9 supported cryptocurrency exchanges,

All data is returned as {xts}-objects which enables seamless interaction with with {quantmod} and {TTR}, for developing and evaluating trading strategies or general purpose cryptocurrency market analysis with a historical or temporal perspective.

:information_source: Overview

{cryptoQuotes} has two main features; retrieving cryptocurrency market data, and charting. The market data consists of OHLC-V data and sentiment indicators; including, but not limited to, cryptocurrency fear and greed index, long-short ratio and open interest. All market data is retrieved using the family of get_*-functions. To get a full overview of the package and functionality please see the documentation via {pkgdown}.

[!WARNING]

Given the nature of crypotcurrency data and general legislative restrictions, some exchanges may not work in your geolocation.

Below is a quick overview of the package and basic usage examples on retrieving and charting Bitcoin (BTC) OHLC-V and long-short ratio in 30 minute intervals.

:information_source: Cryptocurrency market data

OHLC-V

All supported exchanges and markets are listed in the table below, alongside the available range of intervals available from the respective exchanges,

Get USDT denominated Bitcoin (BTC) on the spot market from Binance in 30m-intervals using the get_quote()-function,

## BTC OHLC prices
## from Binance spot market
## in 30 minute intervals
BTC <- cryptoQuotes::get_quote(
  ticker   = 'BTCUSDT',
  source   = 'binance',
  futures  = FALSE,
  interval = '30m',
  from     = Sys.Date() - 2
)

Sentiment indicators

The sentiment indicators available in {cryptoQuotes} can be divided in two; derived indicators and market indicators. The former is calculated based on, for example, the price actions such as the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator. The latter are public indicators such as the long-short ratio or fear and greed index; these are retrieved using the family of get_*-functions, while the derived indicators can be created using, for example, {TTR}.

In this overview we are focusing on market indicators made public by the cryptocurrency exchanges. For a full overview of sentiment indicators please refer to the documentation via {pkgdown}. All supported market indicators by exchange are listed in the table below,