cg.coin.price.moved - CoinGecko API

Dispatched whenever a top-100 coin’s price moves significantly, using a pre-tuned sensitivity threshold so you only receive meaningful moves.

Use Cases

Real-Time Price Alerts

Notify your users or community the moment a major coin makes a significant move.

Automated Trading Triggers

Kick off bots, screens, or trading workflows when a top coin moves meaningfully.

Portfolio & Risk Monitoring

Track significant swings across major assets without constant polling.

Market Dashboards & Feeds

Surface live price movements to power dashboards, tickers, and market updates.

Payload

Each payload contains the event type, the identity of the coin, and its price movement.

string

cg.coin.price.moved

object

Coin and its price movement.

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string

CoinGecko coin ID

string

Coin symbol

string

Coin name

number

Current price

number

24-hour price change percentage

number

24-hour price change

Example

{
  "event_type": "cg.coin.price.moved",
  "data": {
    "id": "bitcoin",
    "symbol": "btc",
    "name": "Bitcoin",
    "current_price": 86216,
    "price_change_percentage_24h": 2.34,
    "price_change_24h": 1972.45
  }
}

​Use Cases

Real-Time Price Alerts

Automated Trading Triggers

Portfolio & Risk Monitoring

Market Dashboards & Feeds

​Payload

​Example

Use Cases

Payload

Example