# APEX Runner: Apex Alpha Score Institutional Signal

> APEX Runner: Apex Alpha Score Institutional Signal is a paid API for AI agents from apexrunner.ai, paid per call via x402, $24.5/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a composite institutional-grade alpha signal for crypto trading, combining fear/greed, whale bias, funding pressure, liquidation risk, regime confluence, and grid health metrics.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://apexrunner.ai/signals/apex-alpha-score-institutional
- Price: $24.5/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/apex-runner-apex-alpha-score-institutional-signal-1fcd71e4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5-ETqWuzVFwP7tivDYTKi

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability apex-runner-apex-alpha-score-institutional-signal-1fcd71e4
```

Example prompt: Pull the APEX Alpha Score institutional signal right now — I want to see the composite score, the whale bias, funding pressure, and whether there's any cascade liquidation risk alert active.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint over the standard Apex Alpha Score when you need the full institutional-grade signal with extended metadata including live capital deployed status, trades backing the signal count, and the complete multi-factor breakdown. Prefer over individual component signals when you need a single aggregated view across fear/greed, whale bias, funding pressure, liquidation risk, regime confluence, and grid health simultaneously for institutional decision-making.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not processed — x402 payment required before signal is returned
- Rate limiting — too many calls in a short window
- Signal temporarily unavailable — live trading data feed interruption
- Invalid or missing query parameters — schema validation error
- Network timeout — real-time data aggregation latency spike

## How this service works

APEX Runner: Apex Alpha Score Institutional Signal

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a top-level _apex metadata block (signal classification, version, instance, verify URL, signal hash, live trading flag, evolution runs count, live capital deployed flag, trades backing signal), a timestamp, and a components breakdown including: fear_greed (score, value, weight, classification), whale_bias (bias direction, score, weight, long percentage), grid_health (exchanges, best performing pair, cycle velocity per hour, PnL withheld flag), funding_pressure (label, score, status, weight, 8h rate), liquidation_risk (level, score, weight, cascade alert boolean, cascade risk score, highest pressure coin), and regime_confluence (score, weight, confluence type, dominant regime, recommended action).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "alpha_score": 73,
  "institutional": {
   "signal_strength": "STRONG",
   "confidence_interval": {
    "low": 0.672,
    "high": 0.788
   }
  }
 },
 "alpha_score": "int 0-100 — composite deployment readiness score",
 "institutional": "object — confidence_interval, historical_accuracy, signal_strength, position_sizing, data_provenance"
}
```

## More

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