> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ostium.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# OHLC candles

> Historical candles for one pair over a time range — chart history, and the backfill to sit behind the live stream.

`pair` is `BASE-QUOTE` (e.g. `FTSE-GBP`). `resolution` is a candle width in minutes, or `1D` / `1W`. Candle `time` is the open time in Unix **milliseconds**, while the request range is in seconds.

Rate limit: 100 requests per 10 seconds per IP. Read `x-ratelimit-*` for the live budget rather than assuming this figure.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /v1/ohlc
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Ostium Builder API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >
    REST API for the Ostium Builder SDK and integrating partners: live prices,
    depth, OHLC, and market hours.


    ## Authentication


    **None required today.**


    ## Quick start


    1. **Snapshot** — `GET /v1/prices` (or `GET /v1/prices/{pair}`) for an
    initial board.

    2. **Stream** — connect to `WS /v1/prices/stream` for live ticks — see the
    **Price Stream** section.

    3. **Candles** — `POST /v1/ohlc` for historical OHLC.

    4. **Sessions** — `GET /v1/market-hours` for calendars (cache it; use tick
    flags for “open right now”). The pair list is under **Markets**.

    5. **Depth** — `GET /v1/depth/{pair}/quote` for the price a given size
    actually gets.

    6. **Status** — `GET /v1/status` to check the price feed is live before
    relying on quotes.


    Typed clients: use `@ostium/builder-sdk`, or generate one from this document
    with any OpenAPI 3.1 client generator.


    ## Rate limits


    Applied per IP. Most limits are per route; where a group of endpoints shares
    one budget the endpoint's own description says so. Every rate-limited
    response carries `x-ratelimit-limit`, `x-ratelimit-remaining`, and
    `x-ratelimit-reset`; 429s add `retry-after`. **Read the headers** — do not
    hard-code the documented figures.


    ## Errors


    Two envelopes:


    - **Framework** — `{ "error": "<Status Name>", "message": "..." }` (optional
    `issues` / `details`).

    - **Upstream proxy** — `{ "error": "<human message>" }` from OHLC failures.


    `error` means different things across the two shapes — do not switch on it
    alone until a future major version unifies them.


    Every response carries `x-request-id`. Quote it when reporting a problem.


    ## Hosts


    - Production: `https://builder.prod.bedrock.ostium.io`
servers:
  - url: https://builder.prod.bedrock.ostium.io
    description: Production
security: []
tags:
  - name: Prices
    description: Live prices and historical candles
  - name: Price Stream
    description: >-
      Live prices over a WebSocket. This section is the contract — everything
      below is what the

      server actually sends.


      ### Connecting


      ```

      wss://builder.prod.bedrock.ostium.io/v1/prices/stream?pairs=BTC-USD,ETH-USD

      ```


      `?pairs=` is optional; omit it to receive every asset. No authentication,
      though the handshake is

      capped — see **Limits**. Browser clients are subject to an origin
      allowlist; a rejected upgrade is

      closed with a bare `403`.


      ### Server messages


      One snapshot on connect, carrying the `seq` baseline for every asset:


      ```json

      { "type": "snapshot", "seq": { "BTC-USD": 41 }, "data": [{ "pair":
      "BTC-USD", "bid": 1, "mid": 1, "ask": 1 }] }

      ```


      Then one frame per tick:


      ```json

      { "type": "tick", "seq": 42, "data": { "pair": "BTC-USD", "bid": 1, "mid":
      1, "ask": 1 } }

      ```


      `data` is byte-identical to a row from `GET /v1/prices` — `seq` sits on
      the frame, not inside it,

      so the tick payload stays the same shape as REST.


      | `type` | Sent when |

      | --- | --- |

      | `snapshot` | Once, on connect |

      | `tick` | A price updates |

      | `gap` | Ticks were dropped for you — precedes the next frame you receive
      |

      | `ack` | Your `subscribe`/`unsubscribe` was applied |

      | `error` | Your message was rejected; the filter is unchanged |


      ### Client messages


      ```json

      { "type": "subscribe",   "pairs": ["EUR-USD"] }

      { "type": "unsubscribe", "pairs": ["EUR-USD"] }

      ```


      Every message gets exactly one reply — an `ack` carrying `pairCount` (the
      number of assets you now

      receive; `null` is all of them, `0` is none), or an `error` carrying a
      `code` of `malformed`,

      `unknown_type`, `invalid_pairs`, `no_filter` or `rate_limited`.


      ```json

      { "type": "ack",   "for": "subscribe", "pairCount": 2 }

      { "type": "error", "code": "no_filter", "message": "..." }

      ```


      Filters only widen. `subscribe` on an unfiltered connection is a no-op
      acked with

      `"pairCount": null` — to narrow, reconnect with `?pairs=`. `unsubscribe`
      needs a filtered

      connection and is rejected with `no_filter` otherwise. Unsubscribing your
      last asset leaves you

      receiving nothing (`"pairCount": 0`), which `subscribe` recovers without
      reconnecting.


      ### Detecting loss


      Delivery is best effort, but loss is **detectable**. If more than 1 MB is
      buffered for a slow

      client, ticks are dropped rather than queued — and you are told:


      ```json

      { "type": "gap", "dropped": 17 }

      ```


      `seq` is a per-asset counter, so a jump between consecutive `tick` frames
      for one asset means you

      missed that many. Baseline each asset from the `snapshot`, then compare.


      Two limits on what `seq` can tell you. It is **per connection** —
      process-wide, not global, so it

      does not survive a reconnect and is not comparable across replicas. And
      there is **no replay**: the

      stream tells you that you fell behind, not what you missed, so recover by
      re-reading

      `GET /v1/prices`.


      Assets with no trading schedule are omitted entirely, from the snapshot
      and from ticks. A missing

      asset is not a signal that its market is closed.


      ### Limits


      Per pod, so the effective ceiling scales with replica count. Read the
      headers on a rejected

      upgrade rather than hard-coding these.


      | Limit | Default | Rejected with |

      | --- | --- | --- |

      | Connections per IP | 20 | `429` |

      | Connections in total | 500 | `503` |

      | Upgrades per IP per minute | 60 | `429` |

      | Client messages per socket per minute | 120 | `error`, `code:
      "rate_limited"` |


      Rejected upgrades carry `Retry-After`.


      ### Heartbeat


      The server pings every 30 seconds and terminates a connection that has not
      ponged since the

      previous ping. Browsers pong automatically; other clients need a library
      that does. On shutdown the

      server closes with `1001 going away` after draining.
    x-traitTag: true
  - name: Liquidity
    description: >-
      What a given trade size actually costs, priced against the live impact
      model
  - name: Markets
    description: >-
      What is listed and when it trades.


      ### Pairs


      Every pair on Ostium. Use `id` wherever a request takes a `pairIndex`, and
      the symbol wherever

      one takes a `pair`. Do not infer the id from a row's position — read the
      column.


      A pair marked `not yet` in **Tradeable** is listed on chain but has no
      open-interest ceiling, so

      it cannot be traded and `GET /v1/depth/{pair}` answers `503` for it (the
      `/quote`

      sub-resource still prices it, with `availableNotionalUsd: 0`). It is shown
      rather than hidden so

      the ids either side of it stay right.


      Note `GET /v1/pairs` returns the subgraph's own spelling in `from`/`to`,
      which for renamed

      assets is the legacy one — `SPX` where this table says `US500`. The table
      uses the symbol the

      price and depth endpoints expect.


      <!-- MARKETS:START -->

      | id | Pair | Tradeable |

      | -- | ---- | --------- |

      | 0 | `BTC-USD` | yes |

      | 1 | `ETH-USD` | yes |

      | 2 | `EUR-USD` | yes |

      | 3 | `GBP-USD` | yes |

      | 4 | `USD-JPY` | yes |

      | 5 | `XAU-USD` | yes |

      | 6 | `XCU-USD` | yes |

      | 7 | `WTI-USD` | yes |

      | 8 | `XAG-USD` | yes |

      | 9 | `SOL-USD` | yes |

      | 10 | `US500-USD` | yes |

      | 11 | `US30-USD` | yes |

      | 12 | `US100-USD` | yes |

      | 13 | `JP225-JPY` | yes |

      | 14 | `UK100-GBP` | yes |

      | 15 | `GER40-EUR` | yes |

      | 16 | `USD-CAD` | yes |

      | 17 | `USD-MXN` | yes |

      | 18 | `NVDA-USD` | yes |

      | 19 | `GOOG-USD` | yes |

      | 20 | `AMZN-USD` | yes |

      | 21 | `META-USD` | yes |

      | 22 | `TSLA-USD` | yes |

      | 23 | `AAPL-USD` | yes |

      | 24 | `MSFT-USD` | yes |

      | 25 | `USD-CHF` | yes |

      | 26 | `AUD-USD` | yes |

      | 27 | `NZD-USD` | yes |

      | 28 | `XPD-USD` | yes |

      | 29 | `XPT-USD` | yes |

      | 30 | `HK50-HKD` | yes |

      | 31 | `COIN-USD` | yes |

      | 32 | `HOOD-USD` | yes |

      | 33 | `MSTR-USD` | yes |

      | 34 | `CRCL-USD` | yes |

      | 35 | `BMNR-USD` | yes |

      | 36 | `SBET-USD` | yes |

      | 37 | `GLXY-USD` | yes |

      | 38 | `BNB-USD` | yes |

      | 39 | `XRP-USD` | yes |

      | 40 | `TRX-USD` | yes |

      | 41 | `HYPE-USD` | yes |

      | 42 | `LINK-USD` | yes |

      | 43 | `ADA-USD` | yes |

      | 44 | `PLTR-USD` | yes |

      | 45 | `AMD-USD` | yes |

      | 46 | `NFLX-USD` | yes |

      | 47 | `ORCL-USD` | yes |

      | 48 | `RIVN-USD` | yes |

      | 49 | `COST-USD` | yes |

      | 50 | `XOM-USD` | yes |

      | 51 | `CVX-USD` | yes |

      | 52 | `URA-USD` | yes |

      | 53 | `USD-KRW` | not yet |

      | 54 | `KR2550-USD` | yes |

      | 55 | `BRENT-USD` | yes |

      | 56 | `GEV-USD` | yes |

      | 57 | `SHEL-USD` | yes |

      | 58 | `UNG-USD` | yes |

      | 59 | `XLE-USD` | yes |

      | 60 | `ARM-USD` | yes |

      | 61 | `ASML-USD` | yes |

      | 62 | `AVGO-USD` | yes |

      | 63 | `CAT-USD` | yes |

      | 64 | `INTC-USD` | yes |

      | 65 | `SMCI-USD` | yes |

      | 66 | `TSM-USD` | yes |

      | 67 | `MU-USD` | yes |

      | 68 | `SNDK-USD` | yes |

      | 69 | `HYG-USD` | yes |

      | 70 | `TLT-USD` | yes |

      | 71 | `MP-USD` | yes |

      | 72 | `DRAM-USD` | yes |

      | 73 | `REMX-USD` | yes |

      | 74 | `BB-USD` | yes |

      | 75 | `CRWV-USD` | yes |

      | 76 | `DELL-USD` | yes |

      | 77 | `MRNA-USD` | yes |

      | 78 | `MRVL-USD` | yes |

      | 79 | `NBIS-USD` | yes |

      | 80 | `LLY-USD` | yes |

      | 81 | `SKHY-USD` | yes |

      | 82 | `SPCX-USD` | yes |

      <!-- MARKETS:END -->
  - name: Portfolio
    description: A wallet's open positions, resting orders and executed history
  - name: Orders
    description: >-
      Partner-signed intents executed as a single transaction — the position
      opens or closes and fills, or the whole call reverts. Onboarding lives
      here too: it is the one-time step every order depends on.
  - name: Status
    description: Whether the API is answering usefully right now
paths:
  /v1/ohlc:
    post:
      tags:
        - Prices
      summary: OHLC candles
      description: >-
        Historical candles for one pair over a time range — chart history, and
        the backfill to sit behind the live stream.


        `pair` is `BASE-QUOTE` (e.g. `FTSE-GBP`). `resolution` is a candle width
        in minutes, or `1D` / `1W`. Candle `time` is the open time in Unix
        **milliseconds**, while the request range is in seconds.


        Rate limit: 100 requests per 10 seconds per IP. Read `x-ratelimit-*` for
        the live budget rather than assuming this figure.
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                pair:
                  type: string
                  pattern: ^[A-Z0-9]+-[A-Z0-9]+$
                  description: Trading pair as BASE-QUOTE, e.g. BTC-USD or FTSE-GBP
                fromTimestampSeconds:
                  type: integer
                  exclusiveMinimum: 0
                  description: Range start as Unix seconds (not milliseconds)
                toTimestampSeconds:
                  type: integer
                  exclusiveMinimum: 0
                  description: Range end as Unix seconds (not milliseconds)
                resolution:
                  type: string
                  minLength: 1
                  maxLength: 10
                  description: Candle width in minutes (e.g. "1", "60"), or "1D" / "1W"
              required:
                - pair
                - fromTimestampSeconds
                - toTimestampSeconds
                - resolution
            example:
              pair: BTC-USD
              fromTimestampSeconds: 1710000000
              toTimestampSeconds: 1710086400
              resolution: '60'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Candles in ascending time order
          headers:
            x-request-id:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: >-
                Always present, and always generated by the service — a value
                sent on the request is ignored. Use it to correlate a response
                with your own logs, and quote it when reporting a problem.
            x-ratelimit-limit:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests allowed per window.
            x-ratelimit-remaining:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests left in the current window.
            x-ratelimit-reset:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds until the window resets.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/OhlcCandle'
                  lastRequestTimestamp:
                    type:
                      - integer
                      - 'null'
                    description: Pagination cursor; null when not applicable
                required:
                  - data
                  - lastRequestTimestamp
              example:
                data:
                  - from: BTC
                    to: USD
                    time: 1710000000000
                    open: 97000
                    high: 97500
                    low: 96800
                    close: 97400
                lastRequestTimestamp: null
        '400':
          description: Validation failed
          headers:
            x-request-id:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: >-
                Always present, and always generated by the service — a value
                sent on the request is ignored. Use it to correlate a response
                with your own logs, and quote it when reporting a problem.
            x-ratelimit-limit:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests allowed per window.
            x-ratelimit-remaining:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests left in the current window.
            x-ratelimit-reset:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds until the window resets.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
              example:
                error: Bad Request
                message: Validation failed
                issues: []
        '413':
          description: Request body is larger than the parser limit
          headers:
            x-request-id:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: >-
                Always present, and always generated by the service — a value
                sent on the request is ignored. Use it to correlate a response
                with your own logs, and quote it when reporting a problem.
            x-ratelimit-limit:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests allowed per window.
            x-ratelimit-remaining:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests left in the current window.
            x-ratelimit-reset:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds until the window resets.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
              example:
                error: Payload Too Large
                message: request entity too large
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded
          headers:
            x-request-id:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: >-
                Always present, and always generated by the service — a value
                sent on the request is ignored. Use it to correlate a response
                with your own logs, and quote it when reporting a problem.
            x-ratelimit-limit:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests allowed per window.
            x-ratelimit-remaining:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests left in the current window.
            x-ratelimit-reset:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds until the window resets.
            retry-after:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds to wait before retrying.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
              example:
                error: Too Many Requests
                message: Rate limit exceeded. Try again in 7s.
        '500':
          description: Unexpected error
          headers:
            x-request-id:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: >-
                Always present, and always generated by the service — a value
                sent on the request is ignored. Use it to correlate a response
                with your own logs, and quote it when reporting a problem.
            x-ratelimit-limit:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests allowed per window.
            x-ratelimit-remaining:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests left in the current window.
            x-ratelimit-reset:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds until the window resets.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
              example:
                error: Internal Server Error
                message: Internal Server Error
        '502':
          description: OHLC upstream unreachable
          headers:
            x-request-id:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: >-
                Always present, and always generated by the service — a value
                sent on the request is ignored. Use it to correlate a response
                with your own logs, and quote it when reporting a problem.
            x-ratelimit-limit:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests allowed per window.
            x-ratelimit-remaining:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Requests left in the current window.
            x-ratelimit-reset:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: Seconds until the window resets.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpstreamErrorResponse'
              example:
                error: Failed to reach OHLC upstream.
components:
  schemas:
    OhlcCandle:
      type: object
      properties:
        from:
          type: string
          description: Base asset
          example: BTC
        to:
          type: string
          description: Quote asset
          example: USD
        time:
          type: integer
          description: Candle open time, Unix **milliseconds**
          example: 1710000000000
        open:
          type: number
          example: 97000
        high:
          type: number
          example: 97500
        low:
          type: number
          example: 96800
        close:
          type: number
          example: 97400
      required:
        - from
        - to
        - time
        - open
        - high
        - low
        - close
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: HTTP status name, e.g. "Bad Request"
          example: Bad Request
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable detail
          example: Validation failed
        issues:
          type: array
          items: {}
          description: Raw zod issue array — present on validation failures only
        details:
          description: Optional structured detail from the thrower
      required:
        - error
        - message
    UpstreamErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable failure message (not an HTTP status name)
          example: Failed to reach OHLC upstream.
      required:
        - error

````