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Equities

Get started with equities data by fetching top-of-book quotes and last sale.
Equities
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Get a ranking of the biggest gainers in the Nasdaq pre-market session.
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Find the average spread for a symbol across the different equity venues.
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Consolidate MBP-1 from prop feeds to get an improved microprice vs. SIP NBBO.
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Futures

Get started with futures and symbology. Volumes, tick size, expirations, and more.
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Retrieve volume, open interest, and settlement prices from the statistics schema.
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Get trading hours for a futures product.
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Get daily, weekly, and monthly options for a futures product.
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Options

Get started with stock options data. Fetch options chains, strikes, expirations, NBBO.
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Get started with options on futures data. Fetch options chains, strikes, expirations.
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Find all the quarterly, monthly (serial), weekly, and daily options of an underlying.
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Get front month outright options and join with the latest underlying futures quotes.
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Compare volume across all venues in the US equity options market using pandas.
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Fetch NBBO and downsample to 1-minute intervals for all options in a chain.
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Compute and graph implied volatility from options prices.
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Get a list of 0DTE options for a product.
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Calculate volume and open interest for an equity options chain.
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Live data

Handle different record types using callbacks.
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Write and save live data to a file.
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Get time between our servers and your real-time application.
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Compute market TICK and TRading INdex on real-time trades.
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Get the latest order book state without replaying the entire trading session.
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Compare the volumes of the different venues of Nasdaq Basic with NLS Plus.
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Historical data

Get multiple symbols or a firehose of all symbols traded on a venue.
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Request and download batch files programmatically.
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Calculate midprice using BBO from MBP-1 or TBBO data.
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Resample trades data to construct custom OHLCV bars.
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Augment price data with instrument definitions by joining on instrument ID.
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Visualize OHLCV data on a candlestick chart.
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Compute the volume-weighted average price and relative strength indicator.
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Get mark-to-market valuation of a portfolio at end of day.
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Calculate metrics like risk-adjusted return and Sharpe ratio of a portfolio.
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Handle trading halts using status messages.
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Forward-fill gaps from intervals with no trades, then resample to 5-minute bars.
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Symbology

Get symbols by lead month and handle rollovers using continuous symbology.
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Get all symbols with the same product root or option chains using parent symbology.
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Convert between instrument IDs and raw symbols.
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Get all symbols available in a dataset.
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Instrument definitions

Find most active instruments using instrument definitions and OHLCV data.
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Convert prices and spread size to tick units.
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Order book

Learn how Databento normalizes MBO data from an order’s life cycle (e.g., Add, Fill).
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Manage state of all orders to calculate BBO. Precursor to order book construction.
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A complete order book implementation. Use MBO data to build the limit order book.
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Common predictors using order book data.
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Use MBO data to get an accurate position of any order within a price level.
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Algorithmic trading

Implement simulated trading (paper trading) using live data.
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Construct alpha signals using Databento and regression models from sklearn.
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Plot markout curves for transaction cost analysis and measuring execution quality.
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Measure matching engine and feed latency with nanosecond, PTP timestamps.
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Determine and compare implied volatility (IV) and messaging rates.
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Fetch cross-sectional returns. Build a mean reversion strategy and optimal portfolios.
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A cross-venue pairs trading strategy between WTI (CME) and Brent (ICE) crude.
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Build a live stock screener for all U.S. equity tickers.
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Corporate actions

Obtain regular and special dividend information.
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Explore new listings on US and global markets.
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Handle forward and reverse stock split capital events.
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Analyze company merger and demerger events.
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Adjustment factors

Factor in the effects of capital events on securities using adjustment factors.
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Back-adjust closing prices over a selection of stocks using adjustment factors.
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Security master

Use the security master to enrich instrument definitions.
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Track security listings, delistings and symbology changes across time with the security master point-in-time (PIT) records.
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Combine daily close prices with shares outstanding to analyze changes in market capitalization over time.
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