Api V2 Market Volatility Get

Returns volatility-index metrics as two scored dimensions, for either the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index (ticker=VIX, default) or the CBOE Nasdaq-100 Volatility Index (ticker=VXN).

Level — where is the index right now? Maps the current reading to a 0–10 log scale anchored to historical percentiles:

• 0–2 → Subdued (~10–15, historically quiet)
• 2–4 → Low (~15–19, below-average vol)
• 4–6 → Moderate (~19–27, near long-run average)
• 6–8 → Elevated (~27–38, above-average fear)
• 8–10 → Extreme (~38+, crisis-level fear)

Momentum — which direction and how fast is the index moving? Weighted composite rate-of-change across five time scales (5 min through 2 hrs), normalised against realised per-bar volatility of the index.

Data source — reads the rolling 5-min bar window maintained by the per-ticker streaming ingester (VIX → vix_bars, VXN → vxn_bars).