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Why IDM for market data & ANALYTICS?

Market Data: Premier market data is the life blood of every trading company. We provide extremely cost effective access to premium reference market data for any commercial enterprise - large or small.

We provide historical reference data suitable for market analytics, quant research, contract pricing, back testing, powering information systems and more. Whatever the reason, we provide the market data solutions that you need with low cost flexible licensing and easy access to a huge range of reference market data covering global markets.

Analytics: We bring the latest data science and analytic solutions to companies of all size. We deliver market data directly to “R”, Python, Jupyter notebooks and, via the powerful Monitor+ API, to almost all other development languages.

We provide easy access to hundreds of analytic functions and reports so any company, regardless of size, can create their own market data analysis, comparison and forecasting solutions to make better informed trading decisions.

Our XLerate for Excel add-in allows any Excel user to create both simple and complex reports with built-in technical analysis charts. It has an easy to use intuitive point and click interface making it perfect for both less experenced and advanced Excel users.
If you can use Excel, you can use XLerate.

Our solutions work for companies of any size - from single traders to corporate giants.

We help businesses to be more productive, location independent and drive down data costs with our innovative market data solutions.IF you need cost effective market data and analytic solutions - you need Monitor+

One API - All the data.

Our Monitor+ API handles data integration by providing easy access to dozens of exchanges via a clean well defined interface. Get values as time series, in row x column format or for a single date (with change and sparkline data).

The Analytics You Need

Create the powerful analysis, comparison and forecasting reports that your business needs. Help your traders gain new market insight and provide your own analytic reports to your front, mid and back office.

Create Your Own Solutions

Create your own reports and solutions using Jupyter, R, Python and Excel (or most other development languages). Monitor+ makes it easy with multi-series requests, filters, averages and JSON formatted results.

Our Market Data

Access thousands of premier market data time series from commodities, currencies, stocks, independent pricing agencies, indices, fundamental data and more.

Your Own Channel To Market

Add your own proprietary data to the Monitor+ service to create your own global revenue opportunity.

Flexible Terms - Low Cost

Our simple and relaxed licensing terms can allow commercial use of our data in your company. Our low fees ensure you can reduce your data fees significantly. *

* Subject to exchange/vendor regulations and our fair use policy.

the solution you need...

For large Enterprises

Create and implement your own market data solutions using virtually any programming language. We provide native access for “R”, Python and Jupyter developers as well as the flexible, powerful Monitor+ JSON API for other development languages.

With the powerful Monitor+ API you can easily create applications, quant research, build dashboards, quote pages, power databases, create amazing reports and integrate with other BIS software.

As well as having access to our "R", Jupyter and Python reports, you will also have access to our XLerate Excel add-in so that all users can easily access market data reports. With these professional tools you can create, edit, share and update your market reports - at home and in the office.

And Small to Medium Enterprises

You don’t need a team of data scientists and analysts to create powerful analytics. With our “R”, Python and Jupyter notebooks, we provide sample reports that demonstrate how quickly and easily analytic reports can be created, edited and saved. These tools are familiar most data scientists and developers making it easy to outsource your own custom report development.

Not all companies want to to create in-house solutions. In addition to our ready made sample reports, our XLerate Excel add-in brings the power of Monitor+ to Excel. With just a few mouse clicks, you can create amazing market reports, charts and analytics – and all without any knowledge of cryptic exchange symbols. If you can use Excel, you can use Xlerate.

For more information, look at the "Solutions" menu at the top of the page.

Data Integration

Our market data solutions are designed to integrate into business information & trading systems and provide cost saving, cutting edge solutions for front, mid and back office.

Our data servers take data from dozens of exchanges and markets. The Monitor+ API combines them and provides a standard interface to access all the market data, corrections and metadata. The Monitor+ API is extremely powerful, flexible and is designed specifically for reference market data.

For local data integration, we provide tools that are familiar to both data scientists and analysts - Jupyter, Python, "R" and Excel. All tools come as native libraries and with a variety of working examples that are easy to adapt for any specific client requirement.

XLerate for Excel brings the power of Monitor+ to Excel. It has built in market reports and charts making it easy to create, edit and share any report - at work or at home. As it is Excel, you can mix with data from other datasources to create custom reports.

If you'd like to integrate market data from a 3rd party, white label our product or integrate your own proprietary market data to create a sales channel to a new global market then we can help. Click on the "Work with us" menu at the bottom of the page for more information.

How much does it cost?

Cost depends on a number of factors, the data access required, number of users and any vendor fees to access proprietary data. As an example, for a sole trader using XLerate for Excel, prices start from less than $200 per month for an FX/commodities service.

The first step is to determine your data requirements and usage needs. We can then discuss all available options and how we expect to make substantial data access savings for you.

We can sometimes offer a free short term trial for companies to test how our solutions integrate with existing systems.

Why not get in touch with us about our services, solutions and fees? We think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Need more information?

If you have any questions regarding our market data products, analytics or questions about how our solutions can be integrated into your business then get in touch using the "Contact" menu at the top of the page.

We can help you get the market data solutions that your business needs.