
Golang WebSocket market data: stream real-time forex and crypto prices
Stream real-time forex and crypto prices in Go over WebSocket: authenticate, subscribe, parse tick frames, and handle pings and reconnects with working code.
4 posts on market data from the SiftingIO market data blog, spanning real-time and historical coverage across stocks, forex, crypto, commodities, and on-chain venues.

Stream real-time forex and crypto prices in Go over WebSocket: authenticate, subscribe, parse tick frames, and handle pings and reconnects with working code.

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.

How to use a robust cross-venue fair price as a validation layer to flag when one venue is printing a stale, thin, or manipulated quote.

We measured Bitcoin price dispersion across Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, and Bybit over 90 days. After adjusting for USDT, the five venues agree to about 2.4 bps, and roughly 63% of the apparent cross-exchange spread is the stablecoin, not the exchange.