Tickdata

What Tickdata does

Tickdata (Tick Data, LLC), founded in 1984 in Great Falls, United States and now headquartered at 221 River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey, is the world's first provider of historical tick-by-tick prices on futures and index markets and today supplies research-quality historical intraday data across five asset classes — equities, futures, options, forex, and cash indices — spanning 25+ equity markets, 180+ futures symbols, 2,000+ forex pairs, and 60+ cash indices, with futures data back to 1974. The company's stack centers on the TickWrite data management platform, available as an installed Windows/Linux desktop application (TickWrite 7), a browser-based SaaS variant (TickWrite Web), and a RESTful AWS-hosted web service (TickAPI), with underlying raw "Deep History" files deliverable via internet download, external hard drive, or S3-to-S3 sync. Differentiating technical assets include a triple-redundant, geographically diverse data collection and archival system, proprietary tick filtering algorithms that flag and correct bad ticks while preserving raw values, NBBO derivation from TAQ Level I quotes, and a proprietary Ticker Mapping corporate actions database linking as-traded symbols to their current equivalents.

Tickdata monetizes through a mix of one-time data licenses (priced per symbol-year or via Complete Dataset / PICK discount tiers, with $1,000 minimum orders for new clients and $500 for returning clients), annual data update subscriptions, and a usage-based TickAPI offering with tiered pricing and a $250 monthly minimum. The company operates an enterprise field-sales motion targeting investment banks, asset managers, proprietary trading firms, market makers, brokers, and academic institutions, supplemented by an online self-service store, free TickWrite demos with sample data, content marketing via technical white papers, and exclusive third-party distribution of the adjacent OneTick analytics through ICE Data Services since September 2018. Since November 2015 Tickdata has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of OneMarketData, LLC, the maker of the OneTick event-stream processing platform, with no publicly disclosed revenue, funding, or headcount growth metrics.

Name

Tickdata

Legal name

Tick Data, LLC

Website

https://tickdata.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tickdata, founded in 1984, sells research-quality historical tick-by-tick market data across equities, futures, options, forex, and cash indices to institutional clients including global investment banks, asset managers, proprietary trading firms, market makers, brokers, and universities. Its TickWrite 7, TickWrite Web, and TickAPI platforms deliver data back to 1974.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Great Falls

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Historical Market Data Sales: Tick Data sells historical intraday market data (equities, futures, options, forex, cash indices) as one-time purchases or through subscription update services. Data is priced per symbol-year for custom date ranges, or per complete dataset orders with volume discounts (PICK discounts). Minimum order $1,000 for new clients, $500 for returning clients.
2. Data Update Subscriptions: Daily update subscriptions for all markets, retrievable automatically via TickWrite 7's Scheduler feature. Subscriptions are one-year terms, keeping historical data current.
3. TickAPI Usage-Based Data Access: TickAPI is a hosted AWS web service requiring a one-year subscription with minimum monthly charge of $250. Pricing is tiered per unique Symbol Month requested, with lower per-month rates at higher volumes, plus $0.03 per API request and an annual $250 Delivery Support Fee.
4. Deep History Data Delivery: As-traded data files delivered via internet download or external hard drive. Large datasets shipped on external hard drives with shipping & handling fees. Deep History data also accessible via S3-to-S3 sync for AWS users.
5. Company Info / Ticker Mapping (CITM) Add-on: Plain-text historical corporate actions and symbol map data available as an add-on product for equity and options data, for use outside of TickWrite.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Tick Data provides research-quality, cleaned and filtered historical intraday (tick-by-tick) market data covering equities, futures, options, forex, and cash indices across global markets dating back to 1974. Data is delivered to institutional clients via proprietary data management software (TickWrite 7 desktop, TickWrite Web browser-based) and a hosted RESTful API (TickAPI), bundled with reference data such as corporate actions and ticker mapping.

Product overview

TickData offers a unified historical market data platform providing research-quality intraday data across five asset classes: equities, futures, options, forex, and cash indices. The core product portfolio centers on the TickWrite data management system, available in three delivery formats: TickWrite 7 (installed desktop software for Windows/Linux), TickWrite Web (browser-based SaaS), and TickAPI (RESTful web service for programmatic access). Deep History Data files provide raw as-traded data for clients with existing data management infrastructure. Value-added solutions include TCA Solution and Market Surveillance Solution for specific use cases, plus reference data products (Corporate Actions, Ticker Mapping/CITM, Historical Calendar Information) embedded in TickWrite or available as standalone text files. The parent company OneMarketData's OneTick analytics platform provides complementary storage and analysis capabilities for Tick Data clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• TickWrite 7: Desktop data management software installed on Windows or Linux for building custom time series files from historical market data.
• TickWrite Web
• TickAPI

Products and services

• Historical Intraday Market Data Core research-quality global historical intraday (tick-by-tick) market data covering equities, futures, options, forex, and cash indices across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, with institutional-grade quote and trade history from 1974 onward. Sold as one-time licenses or recurring update subscriptions.
• TickWrite 7 Desktop data management software installed on Windows or Linux PC/server for building custom time series files. Provides time series building, continuous futures contract generation, rollover gap adjustment, corporate actions adjustment, and automated data updates via scheduler.
• TickWrite Web Browser-based data management software offering nearly every feature of TickWrite 7 without requiring local file storage or software installation. Mobile-friendly with in-app purchasing, ideal for Mac users and institutions with software restrictions.
• TickAPI On-demand RESTful web service API hosted in AWS, enabling programmatic data requests with all TickWrite formatting and time series building features. Supports /stream for real-time streaming and /download for batch file retrieval. Requires one-year minimum subscription with $250 monthly minimum charge and $0.03 per request.
• Deep History Data As-traded data files for clients not requiring TickWrite time series building capabilities. Files named by symbol for equities, one day per contract for futures/options, and one day of activity for cash index/forex. Delivered via internet download, external hard drive, AWS S3-to-S3 sync, or S3 download.
• TCA Solution Transaction Cost Analysis solution enabling automated TCA by providing programmatic access to symbol mapping (CITM dataset) via TickAPI, reconciling symbol changes between trade time and analysis time for end-users and TCA solution providers.
• Market Surveillance Solution Solution allowing surveillance applications to access Tick Data's institutional-quality research data on demand via secure web requests. Data available per symbol via TickAPI with 'consume and drop' pricing eliminating local storage requirements.
• Equity Data Level I quote and trade data for 25+ major equity markets worldwide including Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Middle East/Africa regions, with Ticker Mapping and corporate actions; survivorship-bias-free including inactive/delisted companies.
• Futures Data Trade and quote data for 180+ futures symbols from exchanges in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia as far back as 1974. Includes currency, equity index, interest rate, metal, energy, industrial, agricultural, and commodity index futures.
• Options Data Historical intraday U.S. options data available from November 16, 2020 covering all listed equity and index options traded on U.S. exchanges reported to OPRA, including trade data with price/volume and pre-built one-minute bars.
• Forex Data Historical intraday spot Forex data from May 1, 2008 covering 2,000+ spot currency pairs. Includes tick-by-tick quote data (bid/ask), pre-built one-minute bars from bid quotes, and data from 95+ contributors from 80+ international cities.
• Cash Indices Data Tick-by-tick data for 60+ global cash indices as far back as 1983. Fields include symbol, date, time, and price, timestamped to millisecond since July 2011.
• Corporate Actions / Ticker Mapping Reference data product providing historical corporate actions including stock splits, dividends, spinoffs, symbol changes, and company name changes, with a complete symbol map linking as-traded symbols to current tickers, embedded in TickWrite software.
• Company Info / Ticker Mapping (CITM) Plain-text historical symbol map product providing corporate actions information including new listings, CUSIP/ISIN changes, ticker symbol changes, company name changes, and listing exchange changes, supported with stock splits, dividends, and spinoff files for use outside of TickWrite.
• Historical Calendar Information Historical trading session information including first/last trade dates for futures contracts, regular session hours, early closes, late opens, and market holidays. Available via subscription for output through TickWrite 7 or nightly AWS download.

Quantifiable outcome

• Data as far back as 1974 — one of the largest historical intraday data repositories
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ICE Data ServicescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 12 September 2018ICE Data Services offers an on-demand tick-by-tick data and analytics service utilizing OneMarketData's OneTick platform over the ICE Consolidated Feed, which delivers aggregated real-time data and content from over 600 global sources. ICE Data Services is the exclusive third-party distributor for this hosted service. This partnership provides Tick Data's analytics to ICE's broad institutional client base.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationTick Data operates its infrastructure in AWS (specifically US-East-1 region). The company transitioned to AWS cloud in 2013 and uses it for data processing, distribution, and hosting TickAPI and TickWrite Web services. Deep History data is delivered via S3-to-S3 sync.
• OneMarketData, LLCcoreOthersTick Data was acquired by OneMarketData, LLC in November 2015. OneMarketData is the parent company and creator of OneTick, a comprehensive event stream processing and tick data management solution. Together, OneTick and Tick Data offer an integrated data and analytics platform. The partnership combines analytics (OneTick) with data (Tick Data).

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Polygon.io: Polygon.io provides real-time and historical market data via cloud APIs for equities, options, forex, and crypto, targeting the same quantitative trading and fintech developer audience as Tick Data with a modern API-first delivery model.
• Intrinio: Intrinio offers financial market data APIs covering equities, options, forex, and fundamentals with tiered subscription pricing, competing head-on with TickAPI for the developer and fintech market data buyer.
• Alpha Vantage: Alpha Vantage provides equities, forex, and crypto market data APIs targeted at developers and quantitative traders with low-cost subscription tiers, competing for the same cloud-native programmatic data buyer as Tick Data.

Emerging players

• Databento: Databento is a newer market data infrastructure provider offering historical and real-time tick data for institutional clients via a modern API-first platform, increasingly competing for the same quantitative trading clients as Tick Data.

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg is the dominant financial data and analytics platform with extensive historical market data coverage bundled into the Bloomberg Terminal, competing with Tick Data as part of a much broader enterprise offering.
• London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) / Refinitiv: LSEG owns Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk), one of the largest providers of historical and real-time market data globally, competing with Tick Data across all asset classes as part of its broader data and analytics portfolio.
• ICE Data Services: ICE Data Services is a major provider of financial market data, analytics, and connectivity, and is both a strategic distribution partner of Tick Data and a competitor in institutional market data, serving the same buy-side and sell-side clients.
• FactSet: FactSet provides integrated financial data, analytics, and workflow solutions to the global investment community, offering historical market data as part of a broader workstation platform that competes for the same institutional budget as Tick Data.
• Morningstar: Morningstar provides investment data, analytics, and research across equities, funds, and other asset classes, with historical market data as part of its broader data and analytics offerings that overlap with Tick Data's institutional client base.
• S&P Global Market Intelligence: S&P Global Market Intelligence offers cross-asset market data, reference data, and analytics to institutional clients, competing with Tick Data in serving investment banks, asset managers, and prop traders for research and back-testing workflows.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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