Base currency and quote currency in FX and commodity data: inverse rates, bid and ask, symbols
How base currency and quote currency work in FX and commodity data: direction of a move, inverting bid and ask, EURUSD and XAUUSD symbols, cross rates.
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12 posts on eurusd from the SiftingIO market data blog, spanning real-time and historical coverage across stocks, forex, crypto, commodities, and on-chain venues.
Posts tagged eurusd
How accurate is real-time market data? A live spread snapshot across crypto, FX, and gold
Consolidated bid/ask spreads measured live on BTCUSD, EURUSD, XAUUSD and more: why one price is really a band, and how to reproduce the numbers yourself.
Forex session overlaps: what happens to spreads, volume, and volatility
The four forex sessions in UTC, their overlaps, why London to New York carries the most volume, and how spreads behave at rollover and in the quiet hours.
How to calculate a currency cross rate: EURGBP from EURUSD and GBPUSD
The cross rate formula with worked math: derive EURGBP from EURUSD and GBPUSD, carry bid and ask through the triangulation, and compute it in Python.
What is a pip in forex? Pip size, fractional pips, and pip value math for EURUSD and USDTRY
What a pip is in forex: pip size for four-decimal and JPY pairs, fractional pips, and step-by-step pip value math for EURUSD and USDTRY from live quotes.
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.
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.
Forex Market Data API: A Practical Guide for Developers
A developer's guide to the Forex API: pull real-time FX quotes and historical OHLC bars for pairs like EURUSD over one REST and WebSocket interface.
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.
Real-time FX and crypto quotes: REST snapshots and WebSocket streams
How to read real-time FX and crypto quotes from SiftingIO: REST bid/ask snapshots for EURUSD and BTCUSD, WebSocket tick streams, and the pitfalls in between.