Market Data & Infrastructure
The infrastructure side of trading: tick data, REST and WebSocket APIs, latency budgets, pipelines, and how to build AI-powered trading applications.
What Is Market Data?
What Is Market Data?: a clear, practical guide covering definitions, mechanics, examples, and how it fits into market data & infrastructure. Written for self-taught traders and developers.
Real-Time vs Delayed Data
Real-Time vs Delayed Data: a clear, practical guide covering definitions, mechanics, examples, and how it fits into market data & infrastructure. Written for self-taught traders and developers.
Tick Data Explained
Tick Data Explained: a clear, practical guide covering definitions, mechanics, examples, and how it fits into market data & infrastructure. Written for self-taught traders and developers.
REST APIs for Market Data
REST APIs for Market Data: a clear, practical guide covering definitions, mechanics, examples, and how it fits into market data & infrastructure. Written for self-taught traders and developers.
WebSocket APIs for Market Data
WebSocket APIs for Market Data: a clear, practical guide covering definitions, mechanics, examples, and how it fits into market data & infrastructure. Written for self-taught traders and developers.
Trading Data Pipelines
Trading Data Pipelines: a clear, practical guide covering definitions, mechanics, examples, and how it fits into market data & infrastructure. Written for self-taught traders and developers.
Latency in Trading Systems
Latency in Trading Systems: a clear, practical guide covering definitions, mechanics, examples, and how it fits into market data & infrastructure. Written for self-taught traders and developers.
Building Trading Applications
Building Trading Applications: a clear, practical guide covering definitions, mechanics, examples, and how it fits into market data & infrastructure. Written for self-taught traders and developers.
AI Trading Agents
AI Trading Agents: a clear, practical guide covering definitions, mechanics, examples, and how it fits into market data & infrastructure. Written for self-taught traders and developers.
MCP for Financial Applications
MCP for Financial Applications: a clear, practical guide covering definitions, mechanics, examples, and how it fits into market data & infrastructure. Written for self-taught traders and developers.
Streaming Real-Time Prices over WebSocket
When to stream prices over WebSocket instead of polling a REST API, how to handle reconnects with backoff and stale connections, and a working browser JavaScript example.
Using Market Data with AI Agents via MCP
What the Model Context Protocol is, how an AI agent calls market data tools such as get_price and get_rsi, how to connect to the RealMarketAPI MCP server, and how to use AI analysis safely.