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Nov 22, 2022case study

Case Study: Birdwingo

Birdwingo recently launched their mobile investment application, bringing an innovative twist to the traditional retail-brokerage landscape by allowing Gen-Z and millennial users to align their investments with their personal convictions. The first of its kind to the European market, Birdwingo provides Gen Z and Millennials a platform to discover companies and build investment portfolios that align with and reflect their personal values and preferences. "We want to

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Sep 6, 2022

New Technical Indicators APIs

After hundreds of requests from our community, we’re happy to announce the release of our new Technical Indicators APIs.

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May 12, 2022case study

Case Study: PlutoHQ

About Pluto: Pluto brings Web 3.0 to retail equities investing, enabling creators and investors to maximize profits across their investment strategies, insights, and ideas. Pluto’s Mission Pluto will bring the power of automated investing to retail traders of all backgrounds. Pluto empowers anyone to become a successful trader by removing complexity and creating a powerful and accessible suite of tools. Pluto and Polygon.io Pluto makes it easy for any investor to design, backtest, and dep

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Nov 4, 2021case study

Case Study: r/WallStreetBets

If I had told you a year ago that amidst a global pandemic, an online community of retail traders would take down a multi-billion dollar hedge fund, would you believe me? Probably not, and that is perfectly reasonable. This pandemic has led to some unprecedented market events. I suppose we can assume this is because everyone was bored quarantining at home and more willing to speculate on the market with their stimulus checks. The increase in retail investors from all around the world helped the

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Oct 26, 2021case study

Case Study: Tickblaze

Tickblaze is one of the world’s most advanced platforms for professional quants and active traders. Armed with a modern, sleek, and customizable interface, terabytes of historical data and a robust API for developing trading strategies, they’re taking on the most sophisticated trading platforms. Tickblaze is setting the new standard for automated trading software, and they’re backed by world-class financial market data from polygon.io. Tickblaze is a desktop platform that allows quants to de

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Jun 29, 2020equities

Understanding Aggregate Bar Delays

Sometimes users reach out to us confused about why they receive an aggregate bar late or twice through our WebSocket feed. This behavior is intentional and designed for quality assurance purposes on our end, here’s why: Trades are occasionally sent to us late. FINRA, for example, has up to 15 minutes to report a trade that happened on any of the dark pools. We deal with these delayed trades differently for second and minute aggregates. Second Aggregation: For sec

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May 26, 2020

Understanding Trade Eligibility

The conditions that are taken into consideration when creating aggregates...

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Feb 19, 2020update

Client Library Updates

Hi everyone! Just wanted to give a brief update regarding the status of the Client Libraries we posted about a few months ago. Since we reached out to our community, several talented developers have stepped up and contributed quality SDKs to our Github . These should help the process of connecting to our RESTful & Websocket APIs [https://polygon.io/do

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