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POST /mostActiveTrades

leaderboards probe ok

Most active by volume. WS /topic/most-active-trades.

Used by UI: —

Last probe status: 200 · expect [200]

curl

curl -sS -X POST 'https://www.cse.lk/api/mostActiveTrades' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Origin: https://www.cse.lk' -H 'Referer: https://www.cse.lk/' \
  -d '{}'

Known failures

Fields

Sample

{
  "_probe": {
    "id": "mostActiveTrades",
    "url": "https://www.cse.lk/api/mostActiveTrades",
    "method": "POST",
    "status": 200,
    "verified_at": "2026-07-16T16:34:35.729832+00:00",
    "fingerprint": {
      "type": "array",
      "len": 10,
      "item_keys": [
        "id",
        "percentageShareVolume",
        "securityId",
        "shareVolume",
        "symbol",
        "tradeVolume",
        "turnover"
      ]
    }
  },
  "response": [
    {
      "id": 57281684,
      "securityId": 266,
      "symbol": "SAMP.N0000",
      "tradeVolume": 1036.0,
      "shareVolume": 702862.0,
      "turnover": 96341348.0,
      "percentageShareVolume": 0.0
    },
    {
      "id": 57281683,
      "securityId": 31,
      "symbol": "HAYC.N0000",
      "tradeVolume": 458.0,
      "shareVolume": 420286.0,
      "turnover": 74018770.25,
      "percentageShareVolume": 0.0
    },
    {
      "id": 57281654,
      "securityId": 208,
      "symbol": "COMB.N0000",
      "tradeVolume": 414.0,
      "shareVolume": 330386.0,
      "turnover": 66509947.5,
      "percentageShareVolume": -0.12406947890818859
    },
    {
      "id": 57281658,
      "securityId": 162,
      "symbol": "CIC.N0000",
      "tradeVolume": 321.0,
      "shareVolume": 1103736.0,
      "turnover": 33074130.9,
      "percentageShareVolume": 0.0
    },
    {
      "id": 57281333,
      "securityId": 297,
      "symbol": "JKH.N0000",
      "tradeVolume": 319.0,
      "shareVolume": 3319037.0,
      "turnover": 66398160.4,
      "percentageShareVolume": 0.5025125628140703
    },
    {
      "id": 57281628,
      "securityId": 26,
      "symbol": "EBCR.N0000",
      "tradeVolume": 244.0,
      "shareVolume": 10262257.0,
      "turnover": 410489624.4,
      "percentageShareVolume": 1.0101010101010102
    },
    {
      "id": 57280898,
      "securityId": 172,
      "symbol": "HNB.N0000",
      "tradeVolume": 241.0,
      "shareVolume": 17140.0,
      "turnover": 6684837.25,
      "percentageShareVolume": -0.2564102564102564
    },
    {
      "id": 57281287,
      "securityId": 1849,
      "symbol": "SHL.N0000",
      "tradeVolume": 210.0,
      "shareVolume": 1227350.0,
      "turnover": 11092542.5,
      "percentageShareVolume": 1.098901098901099
    },
    {
      "id": 57281235,
      "securityId": 118,
      "symbol": "AAIC.N0000",
      "tradeVolume": 206.0,
      "shareVolume": 91857.0,
      "turnover": 7742576.8,
      "percentageShareVolume": -1.2941176470588236
    },
    {
      "id": 57281650,
      "securityId": 267,
      "symbol": "DOCK.N0000",
      "tradeVolume": 203.0,
      "shareVolume": 121133.0,
      "turnover": 14687630.25,
      "percentageShareVolume": -1.0204081632653061
    }
  ]
}