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Re:Ask HN: Where do you get your financial data? by sdcoffey on Thursday May 05, 2022 @07:13PM (#31279386)
It is indeed, which is why we stopped after window-shopping Bloomberg and Nasdaq. Seems like it's hard to have cost-effective, high-quality data with and API that's amenable to bulk backfilling.

We have actually looked at Intrinio! Specifically for options data. Again the problem was that the API is not setup for bulk, historical backfills.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you get your financial data? by melony on Friday May 06, 2022 @12:27AM (#31281320)
No data vendor will give you bulk historical backfills cheaply because then they will be out of business.

I will give you some more names, go pouch a quant or one of their ex-data engineers and maybe you can learn more:

- Bloomberg

- Thomson Reuters

- FactSet

- Refinitive Eikon

There is a reason why so many fintechs are going crypto first. The underlying technology may not be sound but the open business model and accessibility makes innovation a lot easier than dealing with old school financial gatekeepers.

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