The Tiingo Blog
Engineering notes, market data deep-dives, and product updates from the team.
Navigating the Financial Hub: Your Ultimate Guide to Euronext Amsterdam in 2024
Did you know the oldest stock exchange was influenced by spice trading? Operating since the 17th century, Euronext Amsterdam continues to establish its status as a…
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Navigating the Financial Powerhouse: Euronext Paris in 2024
Stock exchanges play a vital role in the entire trading landscape. These large entities act as a central location where stocks and equities can be bought…
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Yahoo Finance API: What It Is, How to Access It, and a Compliant Alternative
A note from Tiingo: We’re bringing our blog fully in-house — every article is now written and fact-checked by the Tiingo team, and we’re republishing our…
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Luxembourg Stock Exchange: A Powerhouse of International Finance in 2024
With 60 global stock exchanges, a few have the financial and economic significance of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. According to the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, the…
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London Stock Exchange: Navigating the Financial Hub of 2024
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is the most influential and valued stock exchange in Europe. Founded in 1801, the LSE plays a major role in the…
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Tiingo: The Ultimate Choice Among IEX Cloud Alternatives
There’s no doubt that the ever-changing financial industry needs access to reliable financial data APIs. This is critical to all involved, from investors to asset managers…
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Full China Stock Market Guide
China is one of the largest contributors to the global economy. The performance of the China stock market is a strong indicator of the world’s economic…
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Navigating the Shenzhen Stock Exchange: A Comprehensive Guide for 2024
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is China’s second-largest stock exchange and is a force for supporting China’s innovation and financial growth. It’s the platform for emerging industries…
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Finding The Best Stock Price API: Top 11 Stock APIs in 2024
In today’s fast-paced markets, traders and investors need immediate access to stock price data. A stock price API automatically delivers real-time end of day stock price…
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What is Maplebear Inc?
You are probably here because you were looking up the price of $CART and saw a company called “Maplebear Inc?” What does this mean? What is…
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How do Mutual Fund Splits work?
Mutual fund splits are a rare occurrence, but are just as important as stock splits, even if less common. Mutual Fund splits work similarly to stock…
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Making Sense of Mutual Fund Prices for Investors
Mutual fund prices are available for any investor to see and fairly easy to calculate, with transparency on the current, real-time, and historical returns a fund…
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13 Essential Crypto Trading Strategies You Should Know
People have been trading financial markets for nearly as long as they have existed. Whether it’s the vast liquidity of the foreign exchange (forex), shares of…
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Investing in Volatility: How to Trade the VIX
The Volatility Index (VIX) is managed by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). It measures, monitors, and reflects how the market feels about the near-term volatility…
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Programming for Finance: Your Questions Answered
Finance has always been an industry that stays up-to-date on the latest advances, from deep learning and quantum computing to the blockchain and beyond. This is…
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What Is AI Stock Trading, and How Does It Work?
AI stock trading is not a new concept. Algorithmic or automated trading has been around for years and plays a vital part in the movement of…
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Using Python for Finance: A Beginner’s Guide
There are a lot of tools you need to successfully operate in markets, from solid mathematical skills to the ability to do extensive research into company…
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How to Use a Forex API for Forex Trading
Forex trading — via foreign currency exchanges, also known as FX — is a fast-paced trading strategy. Investors and traders use statistical models and forex APIs…
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Technical Analysis vs. Fundamental Analysis Explained
Maximizing returns and spotting opportunities that other investors miss is the name of the game with investing and/or short-term trading. Two of the most prominent schools…
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How Do Support and Resistance Indicators Work?
One thing every aspiring trader needs to understand is support and resistance indicators. These are part of what is known as “technical analysis” (TA), which is…
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Simulate Your Investment Strategy by Backtesting Stocks
Want to test a trading strategy before committing any of your or a client’s investment capital? Backtesting stocks and trading strategies is a smart move. Backtesting…
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Chainlink Oracles: Bridging Blockchain and Real-World Data
Blockchains are all the rage nowadays, but until recently, they suffered from a fundamental limitation, in that they had no native support for off-chain data. This…
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Speed Is Everything: Algorithmic Trading Explained
If you’ve been following markets the past several decades, there is no doubt you’ve heard the term algorithmic trading. There are both staunch opponents and proponents…
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Confused About Finance AI? Get Your Questions Answered Here
Artificial intelligence has been a buzzword for decades and has changed the way we shop, entertain ourselves, interact with each other, and get information about the…
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5 Popular Forex Indicators for Traders
Forex (FX) traders use a variety of macro and technical aspects of price to try and determine the direction of forex prices. The focus of this…
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Technical Indicators: What Are They, and How Do They Work?
The stock market is a unique place, where shares of ownership in a company are bought and sold all over the world. If you’re clever, insightful,…
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Need To Scale Your Investment Process? Try a Stock API
Accurate stock market data is crucial when it comes to making smart and timely investment decisions. Stock APIs give investors and analysts access to raw high-quality,…
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What Is Chainlink? Your Questions Answered
Over the past couple of years, blockchain technologies, such as those that underlie Bitcoin and Ethereum, have exploded into the public conversation. Driven partly by the…
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Fundamental Analysis: A Valuable Tool for Savvy Investors
Fundamental analysis measures a security’s intrinsic value using a number of quantitative and qualitative assessments. Investors, day traders, and analysts need to know whether a business’s…
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Unclear on How to Calculate Volatility? Here’s What You Need
If you’ve spent any period of time participating in the stock market, you’ve no doubt noticed that stock prices can fluctuate wildly. This is part of…
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The Kickoff
The Tiingo API Blog has formally kicked off. The goal of this blog is to not only highlight the features of the Tiingo API, but also…
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Tiingo Launches Live Chainlink Node to Provide Signed End-of-Day Equities Price Data On-Chain
We’re excited to announce that Tiingo has launched our own Chainlink node live on mainnet, bringing our financial market data directly to blockchain markets. Our initial…
Read moreTiingo Will Launch a Chainlink Oracle Node To Supply Blockchain Developers with Financial Data and Analytics
Tiingo is excited to announce that we will be bringing our premium API data to leading blockchain networks via the launch of our own official Chainlink…
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Announcing An Upgraded Tiingo.com
For the past seven months, we’ve been rebuilding Tiingo.com. As a result, we’ve upgraded Tiingo.com – including the entire front-end engine, as well as much of…
Read moreMaking the World’s Best Screener for Our Users Pt. 2
If you haven’t seen part one – read it here: Making the World’s Best Screener for Our Users As we’ve improved our screener- we also couldn’t stand…
Read moreMaking the World’s Best Screener for Our Users Pt. 1
It is over a year ago Tiingo launched it’s first screener. We were attempting to move forward the power of screeners, and we had a grandiose…
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Presenting the Tiingo API
It’s here, it’s finally here. The Official Tiingo API has launched after months and months of people requesting this, followed by months and months of dev…
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How to set up Hosted Web Apps with Windows Live Tiles
For those of you who have been keeping up with this blog, the Javascript container process is something I’ve been following closely for the past decade. Earlier…
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AWS vs Packet.net: Why We Left AWS & Benchmarking AWS’s Network, Disk, and CPU Performance
If this sounds like a glowing review of Packet.net – it is. I found myself re-reading this post over and over, trying to make it sound…
Read moreThe Protagonists Fixing the Problem that Apps Created (Part 2)
This is part 2 of the blog post: Apps Have Recreated the Problem the Web Was Trying to Fix In this post we’re going to discuss…
Read moreApps Have Recreated the Problem the Web Was Trying to Fix (Part 1)
It’s no question the word “App” has become ubiquitous and for good reason. For users it’s allowed us to install entire applications within a click. Just 10…
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Matisse and Memory – What Matisse Means for Traders
I was going through old E-mails when I came across a correspondence I wrote to some friends awhile ago. Those of you reading this may be…
Read moreLaunching the Tiingo Open Data Initiative
Since day one, Tiingo has been committed to providing you with top quality data that is more accurate than companies charging $30k+ a year. How in…
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Screening for Increasing Dividends
A user asked us if we could allow screening for increasing dividends; but, we figured we’d do one better. What if you could screen for the increases and decreases of any…
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Presenting Tiingo Comparatives: Changing the Way We Compare Companies
When you’re about to purchase a stock, you want to make sure you are getting the best deal you possibly can. Often we’ll compare a company…
Read moreWhy 13-F filings are Poor for Replicating Funds
I’ve seen hedge fund and trader replication ETFs and strategies for some time now and I realized a lot of them are based on 13-F filings.I…
Read moreBuilding the World’s Most Powerful Stock Screener
I know it’s a bold claim to declare this is the most powerful stock screener out there, so I promise to deliver a bold result. This has…
Read moreThat’s Enough Machine Learning – thanks!
Alright – so I’m going to hammer on one specific topic that’s been bothering me in the tech scene and that’s just machine learning being thrown…
Read morePodcast: Ep.8 Back, Back, Back it Up (Backtesting)
In this Podcast the following material will help you follow along: Here is a Google Spreadsheet of a backtest where we buy a stock after…
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Podcast: Ch.1 Sifting Through the Noise and Taking Action – A Chat with Garrett Baldwin
When I started out in finance, and even now, I get bogged down whenever I read certain financial news outlets. Even after years in the industry,…
Read morePodcast: Ep.7 Our First Hedge Fund Strategy
In this episode we cover not only what hedge funds are, but one of the most recently used hedge fund allocation strategies: risk parity. The…
Read morePodcast QA2: What is Shorting and How Do People Make Money When Stocks Fall?
Short-selling can allow somebody to make money when the price of a stock falls. I’ve been thinking for years on how to best explain this, because…
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Podcast: Ep.6 The Different Styles of Top Investors and Traders (Value, Growth, Discretionary, and Quantitative)
Many of us have heard of the big name investors and traders out there, but what makes them different? What styles do they use? How do…
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Podcast: Ep.5 I Need Stats, Stat! (Volatility and Statistics)
A new Podcast, Episode 5 was just released that breaks into what Volatility is. I was especially challenged by this topic because usually it is a…
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Podcast: QA.1 How I Hustled My Way onto Wall St: An Elaborate Tale of Overcoming Many Setbacks
How do you get a job on Wall Street? Let me share with you my story and lessons I’ve been asked by many students, and those…
Read morePodcast: Ep.4 Portfolio Diversification (Beta and Correlation)
This is the pilot episode of Tiingo Investing that explores what true portfolio diversification is, what metrics we can use to measure diversification, and how we…
Read morePodcast: Ep.3 One Portfolio and Broker Please!
Learn more than basic portfolio advice and take a much deeper dive. This episode explains how we can measure our portfolios (more than just returns), and…
Read morePodcast: Ep.2 The Amped Up Basics Pt. 2 (Mutual Funds, Index Funds, and ETFs)
This episode describes mutual funds, index funds, and ETFs. It then takes it further by describing the background behind each one and how to tell if…
Read morePodcast: Ep.1 The Amped Up Basics Pt. 1 (Stocks, Bonds, and Commodities)
This episode describes stocks, bonds, and commodities and then amps it up. It not only covers them, but also discusses stock indices, exchanges, how these assets…
Read moreAbout Tiingo
Tiingo is an award-winning financial analytics and data platform that powers thousands of asset managers, technology firms, and individuals across the globe. Unique in its position as both a consumer of its data and distributor, Tiingo is trusted by firms across the industry for its clean and unique datasets, which are engineered for the discovery of new alpha sources. With a mission deeply rooted in democratizing access to financial analytics and data, Tiingo is also a leader in financial education for future generations, having partnered with research departments at universities across the world to advocate for financial markets literacy.