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May 9, 2023

Building with Financial Data Sets and APIs

In this article, you'll learn how to incorporate financial data into your application. First, you'll learn more about how to plan for and use real-time financial data in your applications. Then, you'll use the financial API provided by IEX Cloud's Apperate platform to build a financial stock website using NestJS.

Building with Financial Data Sets and APIs

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Tutorial
May 9, 2023

Building with Financial Data Sets and APIs

In this article, you'll learn how to incorporate financial data into your application. First, you'll learn more about how to plan for and use real-time financial data in your applications. Then, you'll use the financial API provided by IEX Cloud's Apperate platform to build a financial stock website using NestJS.

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April 21, 2023

Taming the Chaos: Sourcing Financial Data from Multiple Providers

Combining multiple data sources can help your app or website stand apart from the pack. However, it also comes with several challenges. This guide can get you started on the right foot.

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Insights
March 22, 2023

12 Questions to Ask Your Financial Data Provider Before You Launch Your App

Creating a fintech app or website that uses financial data? Need a stock market API? Before jumping in, you need to know what you're getting into with your financial data or stock market data provider. We've put together a list of 12 questions to help you navigate potential challenges and identify key success factors.

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Insights
February 28, 2023

A Strong Foundation: Building With Financial Data

In this piece, we’ll explore the various types and sources for financial data with an eye toward software application and API developers. If you’re building a financial services app, this piece will give you everything you need to start from a strong foundation.

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Case Study
February 17, 2023

How To Build a Stock Trading App

Combine data from IEX Cloud Apperate with IBKR’s brokerage API to build a trading app.

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Tutorial
December 15, 2021

Building a Heatmap of the Stock Market – Part Two: Squarified Treemaps in Elm

This article is part of a two-part series that shows you how to build heatmap visualizations and use them with ETF data.

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Tutorial
November 20, 2021

How to Build a Heatmap of the Stock Market – Part One: Portfolios, ETFs, and Prices

Learn how to acquire constituents and prices for a portfolio of stocks using Python, then use that data to build a heatmap visualization.

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Tutorial
October 22, 2021

Tutorial: How to Pick Options Contracts Using Python

Use IEX Cloud data to create a Python script that helps you write profitable cash-covered put option contracts.

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Insights
October 20, 2021

The Rise of Retail Investing – And What It Means for Financial Data

Retail investors are more powerful than ever across markets. This changes the way institutional and retail investors alike use data to inform their investment strategies.

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Insights
August 26, 2021

The Power of Employee Headcount Data – And Why It’s So Hard to Find

Many investors evaluate employee headcount to gain an edge in assessing the health of a company. The good news: historical, daily, and quarterly data is on IEX Cloud.

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Webinar
August 15, 2021

Video Tutorial: How to Calculate Correlation Between Stocks

Many investors pay close attention to the correlation between stocks in their portfolio. Why is this, and how do you make those calculations? Learn how, step-by-step in Python.

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Insights
July 26, 2021

Unqork x IEX Cloud: No-Code Custom Financial Apps

Build customized, best-in-class financial applications quickly and with less headcount.

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Release
July 22, 2021

IEX Cloud Joins Pyth Network to Bring Trusted Market Data to Blockchain Apps

IEX Cloud to contribute market data to public Solana blockchain through Pyth Network

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Release
July 22, 2021

Introducing Futures Data and New Options Endpoints

IEX Cloud now supports end-of-day U.S. data for futures contracts, as well as new and improved endpoints for end-of-day U.S. options data.

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Events
July 21, 2021

What's Up with Wealth Tech?

Why and how wealth tech needs to change, according to Bambu

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Insights
June 30, 2021

Meeting in person matters. Here’s how to do it post-COVID.

The benefits of meeting in person, and what we learned from our first post-COVID offsite.

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Tutorial
June 17, 2021

Four Tips for Getting Started with Fundamental Analysis

Learn about the basics of fundamental analysis and why it’s foundational to many investment strategies.

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Webinar
June 10, 2021

How Point Focal Creates Alt-Data Insight for Buy-Side & Sell-Side Firms

Data is everywhere, especially in financial services – but that doesn’t mean it's easy to create value with the data. Point Focal helps solve this problem with a portfolio analytics innovation stack for asset managers and service providers.

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Community
May 17, 2021

Introducing the New IEX Cloud Community Portal

The innovation we see from our users is inspiring and we’re proud to host one of the fastest-growing financial data communities on the web today.

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Release
May 11, 2021

Data Enhancement: Depreciation and Amortization in Fundamentals Data

IEX Cloud worked with New Constructs to make a seemingly small but important update to how it reports on depreciation and amortization.

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Release
May 4, 2021

New Feature: Set Credit Usage Limits by Token

While a usage-based API like ours is great for flexibility, you’re probably also conscious about preventing accidental runaway consumption of your plan. We introduced new subscription management tools to make that even easier to do.

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Tutorial
April 23, 2021

Portfolio Risk Management with Python: From Correlation to Diversification

Learn how to quantify correlations between stocks with Python and build portfolios using this information.

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Webinar
April 22, 2021

Corporate Body Language: Key Learnings from Corporate Event Data

In this webinar, Wall Street Horizon will dive into what corporate event data is and how you can access the unique data sets offered by Wall Street Horizon through IEX Cloud.

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Release
April 19, 2021

Update to Terms: FINRA-registered Individuals Can Now Use IEX Cloud

We've updated our Terms of Use to make the platform available to more people.

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Case Study
April 12, 2021

How Scottfree Analytics Applies Machine Learning to Financial Data

Scottfree Analytics combines the power of machine learning with financial data from IEX Cloud to help investors work smarter, not harder.

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Webinar
April 9, 2021

The Supply Chain of Financial Data

In this video, David Trainer, CEO of New Constructs and Tim Baker, Head of IEX Cloud discuss the internal workings and external forces of the financial data landscape.

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Release
March 24, 2021

OAuth 2.0 on IEX Cloud

Build OAuth applications to provide your users access to financial data – while avoiding costs and complicated entitlements.

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Release
March 10, 2021

How IEX Cloud and Its Partners Shake Up the Financial Data Space

Innovative a-la-carte pricing and data on-demand are just two of the many ways IEX Cloud gives customers more flexibility and control. Users across the industry can benefit – from individual developers to enterprise teams.

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Webinar
March 9, 2021

An Introduction to Fundamental Analysis in Excel

Looking to get started with fundamental analysis? Learn the basics from an industry veteran.

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Case Study
March 4, 2021

The Seven Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Building a Financial Application

Invezz is a leading investing platform, offering millions of users daily news, analysis, and educational courses on investing.

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Release
March 1, 2021

This Month Only: Enjoy Free and Discounted Premium Datasets from IEX Cloud

If youʼve wanted to explore Premium Data, nowʼs the perfect time! Our partners came together to give you the best deal yet. For the month of March, enjoy free or discounted access to select endpoints.

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Case Study
February 22, 2021

How Simply Safe Dividends Built Portfolio Management Tools using IEX Cloud

Simply Safe Dividends provides dividend tracking to everyday investors. See how they power their portfolio management tools with intraday stock data from IEX Cloud.

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Insights
February 19, 2021

The Challenges of Symbology in Financial Data

When it comes to symbology and identifiers in financial data, it gets complicated. The Head of IEX Cloud, Tim Baker, walks through the nuances and problems commonly faced by customers and industry players across the space. Read more

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Release
February 16, 2021

Introducing IEX Cloudʼs New Individual and Business Plans

Weʼre excited to share our new pricing plans, designed to make it even easier to build a subscription thatʼs tailored to your use case.

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Tutorial
February 7, 2021

Introducing IEXSharp: How to Get Market Data Using C# and .NET

The IEXSharp library is built to help you integrate financial data into your application with C# and the .NET framework.

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Webinar
February 2, 2021

The Business of Fintech - Panel Discussion

In this panel discussion with FinTech Sandbox, Atom Finance, and Nossa Data, we discuss the current state of Fintech in 2021.

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Release
December 17, 2020

Recapping IEX Cloudʼs Platform Upgrade

A note from Head of IEX Cloud Tim Baker on our new offering and the importance of the December 2020 platform updates

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Webinar
December 15, 2020

Datasets for Decision Making with IEX Cloud Data Partner Brain

Brain – a research company that creates proprietary datasets and algorithms combining statistics, machine learning and natural language processing – dives into their datasets available on IEX Cloud and how you can gain access to it.

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Webinar
December 8, 2020

Algorithmic Trading Using Python – A Beginnerʼs Course from freeCodeCamp

When computer automation met Wall Street, the industry changed forever. One reason for this was algorithmic trading – or as Investopedia describes it, “a process for executing orders utilizing automated and pre-programmed trading instructions to account for variables such as price, timing and volume.” This basically means you can use computers to help make investment decisions.

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Release
November 3, 2020

Introducing IEX Cloud Gateway, the Financial Data App on OpenFin

OpenFin users can now access real-time stock prices and financial data through the new IEX Cloud application.

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Webinar
October 23, 2020

A Discussion with Commonstock on The Business of Fintech

Itʼs the million-dollar question – how do you turn your idea for a startup into a successful company? Listen in on a conversation between IEX Cloud and David McDonough, CEO of Commonstock, for a discussion of how he built his startup from scratch.

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Release
October 14, 2020

The Next Phase of IEX Cloud

New datasets, more symbols, wider coverage. The platform is expanding!

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Webinar
August 6, 2020

How to Get Market Data in Python

A tutorial on how to get stock prices and other financial data while building in Python.

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Webinar
June 11, 2020

Video Tutorial: How to Get Started with the IEX Cloud API

Learn how to build requests from step one, including how to access real-time stock prices, historical stock prices, use international symbols, and more.

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Community
June 3, 2020

Weʼre hiring!

Our community is growing, and so is our team.

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Case Study
May 29, 2020

How and When Financial News Sentiment Responds to Global Events, According to Brain

Brain used Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques to analyze trends in news sources amidst the COVID-19 crisis, company turmoil, and more.

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Case Study
May 27, 2020

How Passiv Built Portfolio Management Tools for Everyday Investors

Passiv is a portfolio management tool for self-directed investors. Passiv was founded in 2017 by two investors who were frustrated at how difficult it was to easily manage a passive investment portfolio with specified allocations to certain ETFs. Passiv has grown quickly - today, over $350 million is managed using Passivʼs software.

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Case Study
April 30, 2020

How Point Focal Uses IEX Cloud to Bring Fintech Analytics to Asset Managers

Point Focal believes Fintech analytics should be held to a higher standard and enable asset managers to make better investment decisions.

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Webinar
April 17, 2020

How Giant Machines Built Stock Price Widgets Using IEX Cloud

IEX Cloud teamed up with Giant Machines, a product design and development agency in New York City, to bring you stock price widgets.

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Newsletter
April 15, 2020

Whatʼs New on IEX Cloud: Spring 2020

A digest of updates and recent releases on IEX Cloud in Spring 2020.

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Newsletter
March 19, 2020

Whatʼs New on IEX Cloud: Winter 2020

A digest of updates and recent releases on IEX Cloud in Winter 2020.

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Insights
March 18, 2020

Using IEX Cloud During Historic Market Volatility

As we work together to stay safe and healthy given the developments of coronavirus (COVID-19), the global market is also seeing historic volatility. We realize this volatility may be impacting the way you use financial data, including how you use IEX Cloud. To help you navigate this, we wanted to highlight a few key points about U.S. stock data on IEX Cloud.

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Community
December 1, 2019

Introducing #CreatorExchange: The IEX Cloud Meetup

Since our official launch in June 2019, the IEX Cloud community grew to over 40,000 registered users across just a few months. In December 2019, we decided to bring some of those users together with our first #CreatorExchange.

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Release
November 5, 2019

IEX Cloud Adds Corporate Event Data to Financial Data Delivery Platform

IEX Cloud integrates corporate event data from Wall Street Horizon as a new Premium Data offering.

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Release
October 30, 2019

Announcing Premium Data

IEX Cloud is excited to introduce Premium Data — a new offering that makes it even easier to access a range of financial and alternative data all in one place.

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