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Nasdaq Data Link APIs

Highly scalable and robust real-time exchange data. Experience fundamental information delivery with Nasdaq Data Link's cloud API suite.
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Overview

Access Datasets via Cloud API

Nasdaq Data Link APIs provide a flexible and efficient method of delivery for real-time exchange data and other financial information. Stock market data is made available through a suite of streaming and REST APIs, allowing for effortless integration of real-time data from disparate sources and a dramatic reduction in time to market for customer-designed applications. Our market data APIs are highly scalable, and robust enough to support the delivery of real-time exchange data.

Step 1: Data

Power your application with real-time, delayed and historical data.

Step 2: Delivery

Go to market faster without devoting time toward months-long development efforts with delivery through a single API.

Step 3: Display

Select endpoints for specific market coverage, asset classes, timestamps, and more based on your needs.
Solutions

Build Data-Driven Display Solutions

Designed for effortless integration straight from the source, Nasdaq Data Link display capabilities delivered via API provides compelling visuals for all forms of investing applications. From retail brokerage to information portals, visuals play a vital role in providing end-users the information they need to make timely investment decisions.

Sample media portal display built using Nasdaq Data Link API

Last Sale

The latest transaction that is last sale eligible based on market rules. Last Sale provides real-time or delayed pricing information on different stock exchanges for one or multiple securities.

Last Trade

The latest transaction regardless of market rules. Last Trade provides real-time or delayed pricing information on different stock exchanges for one or multiple securities.

Last Quote

Last Quote provides current market price and trading information for a security. It includes the current bid and ask prices, as well as volume information for one or multiple securities.

Snapshot

The latest information based on market rules. Snapshot provides real time or delayed pricing (open/high/low/close/volume/dollar volume), change, net change, as well as previous close information for one or multiple securities.

Trends (Gainers)

Trends (Gainers) provides top 20 gainers within market hours.

Trends (Decliners)

Trends (Decliners) provides top 20 decliners within market hours.

Trends (Most Active by Share Volume)

Trends (Most Active by Share Volume) provides top 20 most active securities by volume within market hours.

Trends (Most Active by Dollar Volume)

Trends (Most Active by Dollar Volume) provides top 20 most active securities by dollar volume within market hours.

Bars (Nasdaq Markets and All U.S. Equity Markets)

The Nasdaq Data Link API Bars endpoint provides the ability to create real-time, delayed and historical charts for all US-listed and OTCBB securities in a single API. Subscribers are now able to easily create charts with 10+ years of history and receive open price/high price/low price/close price/volume data based on different date range and intervals.

Reference Data

By taking ‘’All Symbols’’ and ‘’Symbol Details’’ reference data like symbols, company name and issue type is made easily available.
Benefits

Key Benefits

Product Diversity

Through trader sentiment tools and aggregated trading activity indicators, market participants can analyze options trade and volume data, and create and test trading models and strategies.

High Quality Data Reflective of the Market

Nasdaq’s coverage is extensive, powered by six advanced options trading platforms which cover a large share of total options market volume.*

Faster Insights, Better Decisions

Nasdaq’s real-time options data feeds are delivered with high-speed, enabling you to achieve seamless order fulfillment and price optimization.

Analytics

Standard metrics and analytics including daily high, low, open, close, and volume, are readily available through Exchange data APIs for the data requested.

Real-Time & Historical Data

Seamlessly integrate both real-time and historical data into your application.

*Based on PHLX, NOM, ISE, GEMX, BXOP, and MRX volume reported by The Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA).

Features

Featured Products via API
Nasdaq Basic & Last Sale+

An alternative to Level 1 data, providing Nasdaq Last Sale (NLS) and top of book quotations (Nasdaq Basic).

Nasdaq Basic is the leading exchange-provided alternative for real-time Best Bid and Offer and Last Sale information for all U.S. exchange-listed stocks*.

With Basic, through real-time exchange data API, investors access a proprietary data product that provides accuracy, liquidity, instrument coverage and accessibility with significant cost-savings.

* Based on liquidity within the Nasdaq market center, as well as trades reported to the FINRA Trade Reporting Facility® (TRF®) operated in partnership with FINRA/Nasdaq TRF®

Resources
Nasdaq TotalView

The standard Nasdaq data feed for serious traders – TotalView displays the full order book depth for Nasdaq market participants.

Beyond Level 1, at more than 20x the liquidity of Level 2, Nasdaq offers the most complete market book with all the fundamental information you need to bring your investing decisions to the next level.

Nasdaq TotalView displays the full order book depth on Nasdaq, including shows you every single quote and order at every price level in Nasdaq-, NYSE-, NYSE American- and regional-listed securities on Nasdaq.

TotalView also disseminates the Net Order Imbalance Indicator (NOII) for the Nasdaq Opening and Closing Crosses and Nasdaq IPO/Halt Cross.

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Historical Data

Consolidated end-of-day data from all major U.S. Exchanges.

View the specs page on the Nasdaq Trader for more details:
CQT (Consolidated Quotes and Trades)

Nasdaq Consolidated Quotes and Trades provides investors with easy and flexible access to high quality and reliable real time, streaming level 1 data, including the best bid, best ask, and best price for Nasdaq-, NYSE-, NYSE American, OTCBB and other regional-listed securities.

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Global Indexes Data Service

Real-time and historical Index data for the diverse suite of Nasdaq and other Global Indexes.

GIDS provides data recipients, either directly or through a third-party distributor, the opportunity to reduce network, administrative and data center costs by taking one data feed, rather than many.

GIDS also provides greater dissemination frequency for select indexes, allowing for better trading performance and portfolio valuations. The real-time feed also standardizes message formats for index and ETF values to facilitate the processing of cross-market data.

Resources
Nasdaq Fund Network

Daily performance, NAV, valuation, and strategy-level reference data, such as fund asset focus, sector focus and expenses, for over 35,000 global investable products.

The Nasdaq Fund Network (NFN) facilitates the collection and dissemination of performance, NAV, valuation, and strategy-level reference data for over 35,000 investable products to 100 million plus investors.

Members of the service register their products on the network and receive a unique symbol. The service then disseminates the stock market data, making it searchable on one of the largest distribution channels, which pipes into online brokerages and major market data vendors.

Product issuers and asset managers benefit from an automated service that helps bring more awareness to and gather assets for new and existing products. Also, both institutional and retail investors, as well as the general investing public, benefit from daily access to transparent fund-level data for a wide range of products to help inform investment decisions.
Nasdaq Smart Options

The Nasdaq Smart Options data feed is designed to provide a cost-efficient, low-bandwidth method to consume the full Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) data feed while still delivering the necessary dataset that firms require for options trading.

  • Acquire data with 80% less bandwidth requirement over the standard OPRA data feed
  • Reduce operating costs typically required to support the full OPRA feed
  • View the same critical national best bid and offer, trade data and administrative messages without consuming the full OPRA dataset
  • Better manage constantly increasing option data rates
  • Access Nasdaq Smart Options data from Nasdaq NY Metro area data centers

View the specs page on the Nasdaq Trader for more details:
Resources

Additional Resources
Case Study
Nasdaq Data Link Case Study: Unhedged Read More
Fact Sheet
Nasdaq Data Link API Fact Sheet Read More

Related Products

Nasdaq Last Sale

Nasdaq Last Sale supplies the widest distribution and most transparent access to real-time market data.

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Nasdaq Basic

Nasdaq Basic is an easy-to-administer alternative to Level 1 data, providing last sale and top of book quotations.

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Nasdaq Next-Gen Solutions

From fostering the development of early-stage applications to fueling the growth of established tech leaders, Nasdaq is uniquely positioned to help meet the needs of the NextGen of creators, innovators and disruptors.

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