Financial Market Data Web Services – Xignite Blog

I was reminded when we launched XigniteGlobalRealTime this week of how small the world has become. There was a time when traveling from Europe to my house in California would have taken months by sea, then months by covered wagon. Now I can make the trip in a single non-stop 21-hour flight. Granted, I have to brave the kid kicking the back of my seat, screaming babies, the guy with N1H1 to my right, and the guy to my left who spends all 21 hours trying to sell me life insurance while telling me his life story. But at least I don’t have to worry about scurvy… just airline food.

The world of market data has also gotten much smaller. Not too long ago, getting intraday stock quotes from Europe’s biggest exchanges was simply out of reach for any U.S. company that didn’t have a six-figure technology budget. Now even small startup companies on a shoestring budget can get real-time Level 1 stock quotes from even the smallest European exchanges, not to mention countless other exchanges around the world. What’s next? Frequent data miles for global market data usage? (Hmmm… Not a bad idea.)

If you search the internet looking for U.S. Stock Market Data, you’ve probably found as I have, that the experience can be fairly dry and unentertaining.  You will come across countless websites offering one data set or another, are often missing the critical data points you need, or conversely deliver way too much data for your projects requirements. 

Either way, once you tally up the combined costs of data feeds, network connections, servers, databases, manpower and integration, you will find that traditional delivery methods can be downright depressing.  Time and time again, we hear this feedback from new and prospective customers, telling us that they’re tired of the same old data song and dance.

Xignite's own Farris Pine, adding some fun to the U.S. Stock Quote videos.

Luckily, weve changed that tune with the rollout of our all new U.S. Stock Quote Section.  With this full section re-design, we have put the fun back in U.S. Stock Market Data.  We’ve stacked real-time, delayed and historical data together so you can easily compare and contrast what data sets work best for you.  We offer fun new video tutorials, handy data coverage comparisons, cool interactive demos, tons of helpful sample code and a wealth of easy to use Web service operations. 

With Xignite, you’ll be a rockstar for accelerating project timelines, accounting will love you for coming in under budget, and your developers might even take you to lunch for making their jobs so much easier.  Take a look at this new section by visiting http://www.xignite.com/stock-quote/20003.html.