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by smt88 1399 days ago
If you are paying for financial data subscription, there is a 0% chance you can give it to other people for free without violating the terms of that subscription and being dropped by the vendor.
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Good point, I’ll review this, but last time I looked at it, an enterprise account had redistribution rights. I also own a lot of the data anyway, so I would be able to provide that with no issues.
> last time I looked at it, an enterprise account had redistribution rights

I've seen this in the sense that you can use it in your products. I've never seen a clause that allowed you to distribute the data itself in a feed, API, or data dump. It's possible, but in 15 years of working primarily with financial/accounting data, I haven't yet seen it.

> I've seen this in the sense that you can use it in your products. I've never seen a clause that allowed you to distribute the data itself in a feed, API, or data dump. It's possible, but in 15 years of working primarily with financial/accounting data, I haven't yet seen it.

Perhaps i'm missing something but unless you are running your own direct market data feed handlers most people get pricing from colocated ticker plants providing various markets normalised into whatever format they use. Those themselves are just redistributing market data from other providers

e.g. https://www.exegy.com/products/smds/

I'm also fairly sure verbatim replay is often disallowed without a time based delay on most major north american ones. I recall the consolodated tape, CTA, being pretty permissive

https://www.ctaplan.com/index