Read MT5 quotes and recent candles over REST

What fxapis market data is, and is not: a REST poll of the account's broker quotes, and up to 1,000 recent candles from that terminal. No tick history, no deep archive, no WebSocket stream.

fxapis can read the prices the account's own broker is showing, and a short run of recent bars from that same terminal. It is not a market-data vendor.

Verified against the API on 1 November 2026. Owner: the market-data routes in apps/api/src/routes/candles.ts and the quotes route they share a budget with.

You need	What you get	What you do not get
Current bid and ask	`GET /v1/accounts/{id}/quotes`, polled, up to 20 symbols	A WebSocket stream
Recent OHLC	`GET /v1/accounts/{id}/candles`, M1 through MN1, up to 1,000 bars back from the current one	A multi-year backtesting archive
Tick history	Not available	Do not infer it from quotes
Streaming	Not available	Do not infer it from REST quotes

The account must be online. Each call reaches its terminal and shares the account's live-read budget with quotes and fresh figures (300 a minute plus 50). Past that, the answer is 429 RATE_LIMITED with retry-after.

Candle times are when each bar opened, in UTC, converted with the broker's current clock offset. Bars from before its last daylight-saving change can be an hour out. tickVolume counts price changes, not contracts traded. The last bar is still forming.

Send symbol or instrument, not both. symbol is the broker's name. instrument is fxapis's name for the market, mapped to that account's symbol.

curl "https://api.fxapis.com/v1/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/quotes?symbol=EURUSD" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FXAPIS_KEY"

curl "https://api.fxapis.com/v1/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/candles?symbol=EURUSD&timeframe=H1&count=100" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FXAPIS_KEY"

Use a broker demo account. A successful read is a price or a list of bars, not a charting product.