Blog - AllTick Real-time Market Data API

Funny thing about high-frequency trading: speed isn’t everything, but without it, you’re basically running a marathon in flip-flops. Traders hunting for razor-thin spreads know that every microsecond counts, and honestly,…

Live rates sound simple. Until you actually need them. Anyone who has tried wiring real-time FX data into a product knows the drill. The spreadsheet updates lag. The demo account…

Somewhere between a customer clicking “Buy Now” and your payment gateway giving a polite nod, there’s a tiny, invisible calculation happening. Currency. Conversion. Numbers sliding around behind the curtain. If…

The funny thing about market data is that you don’t really notice it—until it lags. One second your chart is gliding along nicely, the next it freezes like an old…

Some trading desks don’t talk about it out loud, but everyone knows the quiet frustration. You sign up for a so‑called “robust” forex API, wire everything into your models, and…

Somewhere between a half-finished trading journal and a cluttered desktop full of CSV files, this question usually pops up. Not in a theoretical way. In a very practical, slightly frustrated…

Funny thing—most people don’t realize their AI stock screener fails long before the model does. It’s not the math. It’s not the logic. It’s the data feed choking at the…

Funny thing—most people don’t start a financial education website dreaming about APIs. They start with charts. Or lessons. Or that one nagging thought: “Why does every other site have slick,…

Let me start somewhere slightly sideways. If you’ve ever tried to run a serious intraday strategy on gold using “standard” price feeds, you know the frustration. The chart looks fine….

Let’s skip the fluff. If you’re building a crypto price alert platform, your entire product lives or dies on one thing: the data feed. Not the UI. Not the push…

At some point—usually sooner than founders expect—someone on the team says it out loud: “Our data costs are getting weirdly expensive.” And they’re right. Market data is one of those…

Funny thing about portfolio trackers: they almost always look fine… until they don’t. Prices line up, charts look slick, and then—bam—a dividend hits or a stock splits 4‑for‑1 and suddenly…