The SigTech API

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You are two minutes away from backtesting your strategy with pre-ingested, clean data

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The choice of institutional quant teams

Our clients require pristine, dependable data and precision-focused backtesting. A portion of our suite of tools and data is now accessible through a modular API. This grants you the opportunity to try out a subset of our capabilities before committing to the platform, and facilitates the integration of SigTech functionalities with other applications.

Backtest with unparalleled accuracy

Our backtesting framework offers an exceptionally precise simulation of real-world trading scenarios. Backtesting inaccuracies can lead to missed opportunities and inaccurate cost projections, undermining your research. At SigTech, we incorporate event-driven, point-in-time, and remodeled slippage approaches into our backtesting strategy, meeting the standards of clients and safeguarding against the pitfalls of overfitting models.

Financial data, ready to go

Save yourself months of work and dive into testing your ideas today. Utilize our meticulously cleaned, pre-ingested data instead of grappling with raw, messy datasets. Our data goes back to 2010, enabling you to conduct truly epic backtests.

Alternatively, seamlessly integrate your proprietary data into our backtesting tools and tap into our data validation endpoints for streamlined and effective cleanup.

Included data: Futures (equity index, commodity, FX, bond, interest rate, and volatility index). See the full range in our API data catalog.

Coming soon: Economic indicators, individual equities, equity index options, sovereign bonds.

Ultimate flexibility — integrate into any system

Use any language: Engineered for simplicity, our API accommodates your choice of programming language.

Integrate your app: Develop a personalized dashboard or leverage our capabilities to enhance your app and offer it to third parties.

User-friendly Python SDK: For Python fans, our SDK offers an even simpler and more straightforward experience. It incorporates all the major libraries, including NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib.

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Dive in: Example notebooks

Experience the API’s performance firsthand with these example notebooks, hosted in Google Colab. You’ll need to sign up and grab an API key to run them.

APIfying a decade of premium tools & data

Our API, as powerful as it is, offers only a glimpse of the extensive feature set within our enterprise platform. These tools have been built up and refined from over a decade of usage at top global institutions. Although the complete capabilities of SigTech will always remain exclusive to the platform, we are gradually extending more of our platform functionalities to the API.

For current features, see the API reference.

For current data, see the API data catalog

Upcoming data: Economic indicators, individual stocks, equity index options, sovereign bonds.

Upcoming strategy tools: Reinvestment strategy (manages corporate actions within a timeline), equity factor basket strategy (creates strategies based on factor scores), rolling option strategy (maintains exposure to options contracts with the same terms).

Upcoming analytics tools: Summary statistics, performance report, inspect live orders/positions, calculate unallocated cash by weight, timeline (manages strategy actions within defined dates).

Pricing: it’s free (seriously)

Okay we admit the free ride won’t last indefinitely. However, throughout our beta phase, you can explore our API data and features without charge. Simply give it a try and see for yourself. In the future, we will transition to a per-call pricing model, allowing for a modular approach that aligns with your usage

Note that the API is seamlessly integrated into our platform. If you’re an existing customer, there’s no need for a separate sign-up. Simply log in.

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