Financial data guides
Guides to market data, alternative data and quant research infrastructure
Practical notes on market data APIs, historical prices, tick data, order book data, hedge fund data sources, backtesting and research tooling.
Market data API
A practical guide to market data APIs, including real-time feeds, historical prices, asset-class coverage, latency, licensing and integration checks.
market data API · real time market data API · historical market data API · stock market data APIFinancial data API
A practical guide to financial data APIs for prices, fundamentals, filings, macro data, options, news and alternative data workflows.
financial data API · finance API · financial market data API · investment data APIHistorical market data
A practical guide to historical market data, including OHLCV, tick data, corporate actions, survivorship bias and backtesting requirements.
historical market data · historical stock data API · historical price data · historical trading dataTick data
A practical guide to tick data, including trades, quotes, timestamps, market microstructure, storage and research use cases.
tick data · historical tick data · stock tick data · trading tick dataOrder book data
A guide to order book data, including Level 2 market data, bid-ask depth, liquidity, exchange feeds and HFT research considerations.
order book data · level 2 market data · limit order book data · market depth dataAlternative data providers
A practical guide to alternative data providers, including web data, geolocation, app, jobs, news, satellite and transaction-derived datasets.
alternative data providers · alternative data finance · hedge fund alternative data · investment alternative dataHedge fund data sources
A practical guide to hedge fund data sources, including market data, fundamentals, filings, alternative data and research infrastructure.
hedge fund data sources · hedge fund market data · quant fund data sources · investment data sourcesQuant research tools
A practical guide to quant research tools, including data sources, notebooks, feature stores, backtesting, experiment tracking and production handoff.
quant research tools · quant trading tools · systematic trading research tools · quant data toolsBacktesting data
A practical guide to backtesting data, including historical prices, corporate actions, survivorship bias, point-in-time data and transaction costs.
backtesting data · historical data for backtesting · trading backtest data · quant backtesting dataSEC filings data
A practical guide to SEC filings data, including company filings, APIs, XBRL, text extraction, event detection and research workflows.
SEC filings data · SEC filings API · SEC company filings API · XBRL data APIEconomic data API
A guide to economic data APIs, including macro indicators, central bank data, statistical agencies, release calendars and revision caveats.
economic data API · macroeconomic data API · central bank data API · economic indicators APIOptions data API
A practical guide to options data APIs, including options chains, Greeks, implied volatility, historical options data and licensing considerations.
options data API · historical options data · options chain API · implied volatility data API