Overview
Benzinga’s Block Trades API delivers unusually large equity trades that may indicate institutional trading activity.
Large block transactions are often associated with hedge funds, asset managers, pension funds, and other market participants executing sizable orders. By monitoring these trades, traders and investors can identify unusual activity, uncover potential institutional interest, and gain additional context around price and volume movements.
Whether you are building a trading platform, screening tool, alerting system, or quantitative model, Block Trades provides structured equity trade data that can be integrated directly into your workflow.
Block Trades API
The Block Trades API provides access to large equity transactions through flexible API delivery methods, including REST API access. The data can be used to power real-time alerts, institutional activity dashboards, research platforms, screening tools, and trading applications.
Key Benefits & Use Cases
- Identify unusually large equity transactions that may signal institutional activity.
- Monitor potential buying and selling pressure from hedge funds, asset managers, and other large market participants.
- Build real-time block trade alerts and notification systems.
- Enhance trading platforms and research tools with institutional trading insights.
- Analyze trade execution details, volume activity, and market participation.
- Incorporate block trade intelligence into quantitative models and investment strategies.
Data Field Descriptions
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
id |
Unique identifier of the record. |
ticker |
Ticker symbol of the security. |
name |
Company name. |
exchange |
Exchange where the security is listed. |
executing_exchange |
Exchange where the trade was executed. |
date |
Date of the transaction. |
time |
Time of the trade in HH:MM:SS format. |
price |
Trade execution price. |
size |
Number of shares traded. |
bid |
Bid price at the time of execution. |
ask |
Ask price at the time of execution. |
sale_conditions |
Trade condition codes associated with the transaction. |
description |
Description of the block trade. |
updated |
Last updated timestamp (UNIX format). |
count |
Number of records returned. |
