When does a daily candle open and close? Daily bar boundaries in stocks, forex, and crypto
When a daily candle opens and closes in US stocks, forex, and crypto, why weekend gaps exist, and why two providers' daily bars can legitimately differ.
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ohlcv
7 posts on ohlcv from the SiftingIO market data blog, spanning real-time and historical coverage across stocks, forex, crypto, commodities, and on-chain venues.
Posts tagged ohlcv
Why two backtests of the same strategy disagree: the historical price data faults to check first
Five ways historical price data silently corrupts a backtest: adjustment method, venue-dependent highs and lows, gap policy, session cuts, and restated bars.
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.
Aligning economic calendar events with your backtest's bar timeline
How to pull scheduled US economic events from one endpoint and align them with OHLCV bars so a backtest knows when CPI, NFP, and FOMC actually hit.
What is OHLCV data? Bars, candles, and how providers build them
What OHLCV data is, how bars are built from ticks, why two providers disagree on the same candle, adjusted vs unadjusted bars, and how to pull bars via API.
Aligning economic calendar events with your backtest's bar timeline
How to pull scheduled US economic events from one endpoint and align them with OHLCV bars so a backtest knows when CPI, NFP, and FOMC actually hit.
Joining OHLCV bars and XBRL fundamentals for a US stock ticker
How to pull historical OHLCV bars and XBRL fundamentals for one stock ticker from SiftingIO, and avoid the split and fiscal-year pitfalls.