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# GET /v1/signals/volatility

> Return the SEC API volatility score with transparent factor breakdown and freshness metadata

Return the SEC API volatility score with transparent factor breakdown and freshness metadata

<Info>
  Audience: application and coding agent.
</Info>

## Canonical metadata

* `requestId`
* `traceparent`
* `provenance`
* `freshness`
* `methodologyVersion`
* `factors`
* `degradedReasons`

## Example request

<RequestExample>
  ```bash theme={null}
  curl -X GET \
    -H "x-api-key: $SECAPI_API_KEY" \
    -H "secapi-version: 2026-03-19" \
    "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/signals/volatility?ticker=AAPL"
  ```
</RequestExample>

## Example response

<ResponseExample>
  ```json theme={null}
  {
    "object": "derived_signal",
    "id": "sig_vol_aapl",
    "createdAt": "2026-03-18T16:00:00.000Z",
    "livemode": false,
    "signalKey": "omni_volatility_score",
    "methodologyVersion": "2026-03-17.2",
    "entityId": "ent_aapl",
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "cik": "0000320193",
    "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
    "asOf": "2026-03-18T16:00:00.000Z",
    "score": 38.6,
    "band": "moderate",
    "confidence": "high",
    "summaryMd": "## SEC API Volatility Score for Apple Inc.\n\nScore: 38.6 (moderate). Strongest contributor: Disclosure Intensity.",
    "factors": [
      {
        "key": "disclosure_intensity",
        "label": "Disclosure Intensity",
        "score": 42,
        "weight": 0.35,
        "value": 4,
        "explanation": "More frequent high-signal SEC disclosures tend to coincide with elevated uncertainty and event risk."
      }
    ],
    "degradedReasons": [
      "No recent insider transactions were available, so the insider-imbalance factor is low-confidence."
    ],
    "freshness": {
      "status": "degraded",
      "updatedAt": "2026-03-18T16:00:00.000Z",
      "reason": "No recent insider transactions were available, so the insider-imbalance factor is low-confidence."
    },
    "requestId": "req_2ZK8Q1W9F4M6P7R3",
    "provenance": {
      "source": "sec",
      "accessionNumber": null,
      "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch",
      "retrievedAt": "2026-03-18T16:00:00.000Z",
      "parserVersion": "2026-03-16.1"
    }
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>

## Give this prompt to your agent

<Prompt>
  Use SEC API GET /v1/signals/volatility to return the SEC API volatility score with transparent factor breakdown and freshness metadata. Preserve `requestId`, `traceparent`, `provenance`, `freshness`, `methodologyVersion`, `factors`, `degradedReasons` in the output. Return a concise markdown summary plus the exact structured payload fields that a downstream engineer or agent should keep using this result.
</Prompt>

## Failure posture

* treat non-2xx responses as contract-aware failures, not free-form errors
* preserve `requestId` and `traceparent` in logs and downstream reports
* if provenance or freshness metadata is present, return it unchanged so trust is not lost in the handoff