London Strategic Edge provides a free, comprehensive market data platform offering 133 billion ticks across 118,000 datasets spanning stocks, options with greeks, forex, crypto, futures, ETFs, commodities, indices, bond yields, and macro economic series for 100+ countries. The platform includes free strategy backtesting, machine learning price forecasting (LSTM, XGBoost, CatBoost, Random Forest), live charts, and options analysis across 16,000+ instruments, all accessible via a single free API key with no paywall.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Access to comprehensive, high-quality market data is typically locked behind expensive subscriptions, limiting independent traders, researchers, and students from conducting thorough analysis. Fragmented data sources across asset classes and historical depths make it difficult to build and test robust trading strategies without significant financial investment.
Solution
London Strategic Edge offers a free, unified platform providing access to an extensive archive of market data, including 133 billion ticks across 118,000 datasets covering stocks, options with greeks, forex, crypto, futures, ETFs, commodities, indices, bond yields, and macro economic series for 100+ countries, some dating back to 1900. Users can download data as Parquet or CSV files with a single free key, and leverage integrated tools for strategy backtesting, machine learning price forecasting, live charting, and options analysis. The platform supports institutional-grade workflows through a comprehensive HTTP API with endpoints for historical candles, options chains, and bulk exports, all without a paywall or credit card requirement.
Target Audience
Primary users are independent traders, quantitative researchers, data scientists, and financial analysts who need free, comprehensive market data and analytical tools for strategy development, backtesting, and market research.
Features
- Free access to 133 billion ticks across 118,000 datasets, including stocks, options with greeks, forex, crypto, futures, ETFs, commodities, indices, bond yields, and 14,640 macro economic series for 100+ countries
- Data downloadable as Parquet or CSV with a single free API key, with historical data extending back to 1900 for select series
- Integrated strategy backtesting engine and machine learning price forecasting tools using LSTM, XGBoost, CatBoost, and Random Forest models
- Live charts and options analysis across 16,000+ instruments, with options chains including implied volatility and greeks
- HTTP API serving historical candles at fourteen resolutions, macro economic series for 194 countries, government bond yields, options flow, contract candles, and nine reference datasets
- Bulk Parquet exports and comprehensive API documentation with worked examples in curl and Python