Base currency vs quote currency: how to read a forex pair like EURUSD
What base and quote currency mean, why it's EURUSD and never USDEUR, direct vs indirect quoting, and how to read any FX price. With live API examples.
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Forex & Crypto
Real-time and reference data for FX pairs and CEX crypto markets.
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What is a lot in forex? Standard, mini, and micro lot sizes with position value math
What a lot means in forex: standard, mini, micro, and nano lot sizes in one table, plus position value and pip value math computed from a live EURUSD quote.
Forex OHLCV data: how FX candles are built
Forex OHLCV data explained: how FX candles are built from aggregated quotes, why daily bars depend on the day boundary you pick, and how to pull them by API.
Live bid and ask price API: build a correct EURUSD and BTCUSD quote client
How to read live bid and ask prices for EURUSD and BTCUSD over REST and WebSocket: string-typed fields, epoch milliseconds, ping keepalive, and rate limits.
MiCA crypto trade reporting: one trade format for 27 countries is a normalization problem
MiCA crypto trade reporting mandates one uniform trade format across the EU's 27 countries. Why it's a cross-venue data-normalization problem, not paperwork.
Do Bitcoin Spreads Widen on Holidays? A July 4 Liquidity Study
How to measure bitcoin bid-ask spreads and cross-venue liquidity over the July 4 holiday weekend, and what spread widening means for execution and alerts.
Forex Market Data API: A Practical Guide for Developers
Pull live FX quotes and historical OHLCV bars over REST, and stream live forex ticks over WebSocket. A practical Forex API guide for developers.
Currency Conversion API vs Forex Market Data API: Which One You Need
A currency conversion API returns one mid rate per minute. A forex market data API gives tick bid/ask and OHLCV bars. Here is how to pick before you build.
Market data over FIX 4.4 for high-performance trading systems
Pull cross-venue reference prices over a FIX 4.4 market-data session for crypto, forex, and metals, then feed them into MetaTrader. Market data only.