Polygon Team

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Polygon.io partners with Cboe to deliver market data APIs for apps, websites, and displays.

Unlimited APIs, running on world class infrastructure directly inside the exchange data centers, licensed for distribution to an unlimited number of end users.

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Announcing WebSocket Docs V2

Updated User Interface We've updated the user interface on our WebSocket documentation [https://polygon.io/docs/websockets] according to our latest design patterns. An updated wscat example makes connecting to streaming

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Polygon.io Announces $6M Series A to Fuel the Expansion of its Financial Data Platform

Polygon.io, a leading market data platform that allows developers to interface with the world's most accurate real-time and historical financial data, announced today that they have raised a $6M Series A financing led by e.ventures with participation from existing investor, Green Visor Capital.

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Free Data APIs and a New Dashboard

Today we’re announcing two major updates to make Polygon.io even more accessible to developers: free data and a new developer dashboard for all polygon.io subscribers. Starting today all accounts will

Our New HQ

Creating a space with the proper atmosphere is crucial for encouraging productivity and creativity. Our previous location at Atlanta Tech Village was an amazing beginning. It gave us everything a startup could ask

case study

Case Study: Bradley University

Market data is a driving factor in today’s world of finance. We are so often used to associating it with the corporate world, we sometimes forget the useful and important role it

maintence

Planned Maintenance: Cage Upgrades 01/17/2020 - 01/18/2020

We will be upgrading to a larger cage in the Equinix datacenter. There are many benefits to the move, however there will be some downtime required during the transition.

20 Startups to Watch in 2020

We are thrilled to have been selected for Atlanta Inno's top 20 startups to watch in 2020! Huge thanks to Atlanta Inno for awarding us and giving us recognition for the

api

Trade ticks not matching Aggregates

Aggregates ( OHLCV ) are a little more complex to calculate than just min,max,sum. There are condition matrix tables you must adhere to in the CTA and UTP specifications.

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New MarketStatus APIs

We have introduced 2 new APIs to be used to determine the current and future market status. They also have the holidays for individual exchanges.

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Changes to Aggregate Feed

We are making a couple small changes to the aggregate feed tick schema. We are removing a few less useful attributes, and adding some that have been much requested. The updated schema will begin streaming this upcoming Monday ( July 23rd, 2018 ).

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Free Forex accounts closing soon

We posted a couple months ago that free forex accounts were no longer available, and that current free accounts would be closing soon. Now that the new forex integrations are complete, we must

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Planned outage 5/25/18-5/26/18

We will be moving datacenters this weekend ( after market hours ) to the Equinix datacenter in NJ. There are many benefits to the move, however it will require downtime during the transition. The transition

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Real-Time Forex Data Changes

New real-time forex data plans offer hundreds of currency symbol pairs, with simple and intuitive APIs. Stream real-time data, and use our RESTful APIs for historic data back to 2009.

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We're Moving... Datacenters

We are moving into the equinix NY2/NY4 datacenters. The same datacenters as the NYSE, Nasdaq, Bats, CBOE and more. Lower latency, and higher reliability for Polygon customers.

api

New Metadata APIs

New Meta APIs available. Get information like company info, dividends, splits, news and more.

forex

Addition Forex Banks

We have added an additional cluster of Forex banking institutions. Due to adding this, and plans to add more, we have modified the schema of the forex ticks to include the exchange ID.

api

Aggregate Stream Optimizations

We have changed both channels to only broadcast updates on the tickers which have actually had trades in that timespan. Which means the average is ~1000 ticks/second instead of ~8000. This allows better throughput, and less processing messages of tickers that have not changed.

critical

Schema Updates

We are updating the schemas of the TRADES and QUOTES real-time data feeds. All other real-time feeds, and APIs will stay as they are currently. We are changing the schema of the trades/

api

Consolidated Crypto Feed

Polygon.io aggregates the top crypto exchange trades into 1 feed with a standard format. This means you can have a view of the entire crypto market with 1 simple feed. Giving you the most accurate and up to date pricing across the entire market.

infrastructure

Infrastructure Upgrades

Over the past 2 weeks we have made several infrastructure changes and upgrades. The changes touched almost every part of the system, therefor you may have noticed breif latency spikes up to 200ms.

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We have a blog!

We finally had the time to create a blog. The main goal for the blog is to have a more standard way of communicating changes, new features and other important details. We also