Financial Market Data Web Services – Xignite Blog

It takes 5 minutes to beat cream into butter, write half of your name in Elvish, or create a homemade tattoo gun.  Or if you want to get really wild, you could spend your next 5 minutes creating a Windows application to get real-time precious metal quotes.  If that’s a little too wild for you, you could also live vicariously through us by watching a video of us doing it.  But if you’re ready to throw caution to the wind and give it a try for yourself, here’s how:
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In the next 5 minutes, you could get $5 worth of plumbing services, $30 worth of legal advice or $17 worth of psychotherapy. Or, you could just spend your next five minutes building a real-time stock quote widget. Don’t think it can be done in 5 minutes? Check out a video showing us doing it in less time.

Here’s how you can do the same thing using PHP and Eclipse, although the same basic process can be used for any language and any IDE:
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Every five minutes, a business in the U.S. catches fire, someone in the UK swears, and a clock that took 5 years and £1 million to build before being unveiled by none other than Stephen Hawking, finally tells the time accurately for a second or two.

What will you do with your next 5 minutes?

Here’s a thought: Why not build a real-time forex currency converter? Sound like fun? If so, give it a try using the steps below. Or, if you’d rather leave all the fun to someone else, why not just watch a video of us doing it?

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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’ve wanted to add real-time stock quotes to your public website, but just couldn’t justify the cost, you’ll want to learn more about BATS.  No, not the baseball equipment or the “rats with wings.”  The BATS stock exchange.  As it happens, BATS is the third largest stock exchange in the world, covering 8,000 securities and processing over 10% of U.S. trades.  Stock for most public companies are traded on BATS regardless of the exchange that lists them.

BATS has very web-friendly licensing terms for public display of its stock quote data, and we’ve just recently launched two new web services for getting stock quotes from BATS:  XigniteBATSRealTime and XigniteBATSLastSale.  Websites can publish BATS stock quotes without needing to sign exchange agreements that tie them to per-user or per-hit fees.

BATS has made adding stock quotes to web sites easy and affordable

We originally launched XigniteBATSLastSale to give our customers real-time quotes from BATS-traded securities. More recently we’ve launched XigniteBATSRealTime for customers with heavier usage requirements.  In XigniteBATSRealTime, we’ve added data that’s more important for intraday traders, such as tick-by-tick quotes and bid and ask prices.

So, if you’ve been waiting for real-time stock quotes to become more economical for public display on websites, it’s time to take another look at your options.

One of the great things about being a Silicon Valley startup in the financial services market is that there is always a good reason to visit the Big Apple. It’s even more fun when we are launching a new service like Nasdaq Last Sale and we get to do cool stuff like ring the opening bell!

Xignite outside on the Nasdag big screen

XigniteMoneyMarketsDemand for real-time interest rate information has never been stronger. We recently launched XigniteMoneyMarkets as a comprehensive source of real-time US Treasury and real-time global swap rate information for more than 24 currencies. For a demo of all available rates, check here.

Web Service EnhancementsWe constantly enhance existing services by adding new operations or data sets to existing services. Here is a quick rundown of some enhancements for the last few months:

• Addition of real-time Currency Forward Rates to XigniteCurrencies.
• Addition of historical cross bid-ask information to XigniteCurrencies.
• Addition of real-time and historical currency converters to XigniteCurrencies.
• Addition of currency reports to XigniteCurrencies.
• Addition of Canadian NewsWire (CNW) to XigniteReleases.
• Addition of new data points to XigniteFundamentals including StateOfIncorporation, TotalDebt, TotalCash, TotalAssets, TotalLiabilities, NetIncome, TotalRevenue, TotalExpenses, TotalOperatingExpenses, OperatingIncome, StateOfIncorporation, SECName, LastAnnualReport, LastQuarterly, LastProxyStatement, IRSNumber,

Don’t hesitate to contact us if youn eed new operations or new data to increase the value you get from our web services. We pride ourselves in being able to respond to our clients quickly and effectively.