- API
- Stock analytics
- Borrow rate
Stock analytics API, GET /borrow-rate/{ticker}
Is NVDA hard to borrow, and is the borrow rate spiking?
Borrow-rate level, class, percentile and the time series with spike detection. Returns the current 30-day and 2-year borrow rates, the class and percentile, a squeeze score, spike detection with severity, sector comparison and the daily series.
The answer, in one call
Units first,
then the request.
Borrow rates in percent per year; percentiles 0 to 100.
Options-implied borrow from the data feed; spikes are z-scores against the trailing series.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer avmcp_YOUR_TOKEN" \
"https://apexvol.com/api/mcp/data/borrow-rate/NVDA"import requests
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer avmcp_YOUR_TOKEN"}
r = requests.get("https://apexvol.com/api/mcp/data/borrow-rate/NVDA", headers=headers)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()["data"]
print(data["spike_detected"])Is NVDA hard to borrow right now?
The assistant calls get_ticker_analytics and answers from the JSON below.{
"success": true,
"data": {
"current": {
"avg_opt_volume": 3290793.0,
"best_etf": "XLK",
"borrow2yr": 3.5445,
"borrow30": 3.9024,
"borrow_class": "ELEVATED",
"borrow_pctile": 98.8,
"chg_1m": 5.05,
"chg_1w": 5.86,
"iv_percentile": 12.0,
"market_cap": 5561054100000.0,
"open_interest": 16025398.0,
"options_volume": 5455875,
"price": 230.3,
"put_call_ratio": 0.5371,
"residualRate": null,
"sector": "Technology",
"stock_loan_revenue": 898.72,
"stock_volume": 6443150.0,
"synthetic_short_cost": 8.68,
"term_spread": 0.3579,
"vrp": -11.87
},
"earnings_dates": [
"2025-11-19",
"2026-02-25",
"2026-05-20"
],
"next_earnings": null,
"sector_comparison": {
"sector_avg": 4.8474,
"sector_count": 488,
"sector_rank": 297,
"vs_sector_ratio": 0.81
},
"spike_detected": false,
"spike_ratio": 1.2836,
"spike_severity": "MODERATE",
"spike_z_score": 1.92,
"squeeze_score": 26,
"ticker": "NVDA",
"timeseries": [
{
"borrow2yr": 2.8857,
"borrow30": 3.3621,
"borrow30_ma20": null,
"date": "2025-09-05",
"is_spike": false,
"residualRate": null,
"term_spread": 0.4764
},
{
"borrow2yr": 2.7273,
"borrow30": 3.1602,
"borrow30_ma20": null,
"date": "2025-09-08",
"is_spike": false,
"residualRate": null,
"term_spread": 0.4329
},
{
"borrow2yr": 2.655,
"borrow30": 3.2406,
"borrow30_ma20": null,
"date": "2025-09-09",
"is_spike": false,
"residualRate": null,
"term_spread": 0.5856
}
],
"velocity": {
"borrow_chg_1m": 0.6,
"borrow_chg_1w": 0.95
}
}
}Every response is wrapped as {"success": true, "data": {...}}. Lists in the sample are cut to a few rows so it fits on a page; the shape is exactly what your code receives.
Parameters
Bounded,
and the bounds are stated.
Out-of-range numbers are clamped to the documented range, never silently changed to something else. A missing required field returns 400 with the reason.
| Name | In | Default | Range | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ticker required | path | any covered symbol | The underlying, upper case. Use /search to check coverage. | |
days | query | 252 | 20 to 1000 | History length. |
Field by field
What each
number means.
current.borrow30, borrow2yr, borrow_class, borrow_pctile- The rate now.
spike_detected, spike_severity, squeeze_score- The alert.
sector_comparison- Versus the sector.
timeseries[].date, borrow30, is_spike- The history.
Access, limits, errors
Before the
first call.
- Plan
- Premium Premium and above. Tokens are issued to paid and trial accounts from $55 a month; each endpoint follows the tier of its web feature. An endpoint above your plan answers 402 and names the plan it needs.
- Auth
- Bearer token, prefix
avmcp_, created under Account, then API Access. Shown once, hashed at rest, rotates in one click. Always callhttps://apexvol.com, never www. - Limits
- 60 requests a minute and 1,000 an hour per token, plus a monthly allowance by plan. Every response carries the remaining counts in
X-RateLimit-*headers; a 429 carriesRetry-Afterin seconds. - Errors
401no or revoked token;429Retry-After seconds;403Premium plan required;424data feed unavailable, retry. The full list with payload shapes is on the errors page.- Since
- API 1.0. Units, bases and timestamps follow the conventions shared by every endpoint; changes are logged in the API changelog.
- Machine-readable
- This page as Markdown, the family as one file, the whole API as llms-full.txt or OpenAPI 3.1.
The same data, in plain English
Ask for it
in an MCP client.
Connect the ApexVol MCP server and the assistant calls get_ticker_analytics by name. One URL, a sign-in, no token to paste.
Is NVDA hard to borrow right now?
YouWhich of my shorts has a borrow spike?
YouShow the borrow rate history for GME.
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