End-of-day futures prices and options quotes for exchange-traded futures and index & equity options.Accurate Futures & Options Prices.
Overview: DIH provides end-of-day closing prices for exchange-traded futures and index & equity options from over 80 exchanges around the world. Our futures and options prices include details about that day’s trading activity, including:
- Open, High, Low & Close
- Open Interest
- Number of Trades
- Volume Traded
DIH’s futures prices and options prices are algorithmically and manually checked before being published. So you are ensured to receive the most complete and accurate data possible. Note we also offer intraday futures prices.
Coverage: DIH offers closing futures prices and options prices from 40 countries and 80 exchanges.
History: We have data going as far back as 2015.
Updates: We update our data daily. This update process “follows the sun” with closing stock prices from Asian markets becoming available for download first, followed by Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and finally by the Americas. Plus, if you cannot wait for official closing prices that have been verified and filtered, we also offer unconfirmed futures prices and options prices sooner for major markets.
Delivery: You can receive our data in bulk files via download, S3 to S3, or on-demand via API.
License Terms: We license our data for either your internal use only or for display/redistribution to your clients. Unlike other data providers, DIH does not have purge clauses – so if you ever stop receiving data from us, you do not have to a ransom to keep the data you’ve already received and for which you’ve paid.
Pricing: Several inputs go into the pricing for our data. For example, do you want prices for all available countries/markets or a subset? How much history do you want? Do you want updates going forward? Contact us to learn more.
Why Firms Choose Our Futures & Options Prices.
Exchange-traded derivatives are a key component to institution market participants trading and risk management strategies for several reasons:
- Provide a way to lock in prices
- Hedge against unfavorable market movements
- Mitigate risks often for a limited cost
- Can often be purchased on margin which makes them even less expensive
Given the huge size of the global derivatives market, it is absolutely critical for institutional market participants to have the most complete and accurate data.
Before choosing a source, you should consider:
- How are the prices sourced (e.g. from the exchange directly, 3rd party aggregator, or scraping the web)?
- How broad is the geographic coverage? As your needs expand, can the provider accommodate you?
- What (if any) quality checks are performed on the data before they are distributed?
- How does the provider handle corporate actions for the underlying security?
- Finally, under what terms is the data licensed (e.g. can you share the data with your clients, are there any purge clauses if you ever cancel your subscription, etc.)?
What’s Included in Our Futures & Options Prices.
Our futures prices and options prices consist of end-of-day closing prices with the:
- Open, High, Low & Close
- Volume Traded
- Value Traded
- Open Interest
We also include relevant security reference data with our price data, including:
- Ticker Symbol
- Exchange
- Contract Type
- Standard Identifiers (e.g. ISIN, Aii, CFI)
- Currency
- Security Description
- Expiration Date
- Strike Price
- Exercise / Delivery Details
- Details on the Underlying Security
Who Can Benefit from DIH’s Futures & Options Prices?
Because futures prices and options prices are critical to so many facets of the capital markets, a wide variety of firms rely upon DIH’s futures prices and options prices, including:
- Investment banks
- Brokerage firms
- Hedge funds (systematic & non-systematic)
- Asset managers
- Proprietary trading firms
- High net worth investors
- Service providers (e.g. OMS, EMS, data vendors, etc.)
How Clients Use Our Data.
Institutional investors use our futures prices and options prices for various tasks, including:
- Back-testing trading strategies
- Performing portfolio valuations
- Risk management
- Generating research & analytics for their clients
No matter what the use case, having complete and accurate futures prices and options prices is important.
Flexible Updates & Delivery.
Our futures prices and options prices are updated on a daily basis. This update process “follows the sun” with data from Asian markets becoming available for download first, followed by Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and finally by the Americas.
You may customize our futures prices and options prices to best suit your needs. For example, specify the instruments, exchanges, or countries from which you’d like to receive futures prices and options prices. Also, choose how much historical data you’d like, and whether you wish to subscribe for updates going forward.
We offer several ways to access our data:
Bulk File Download – For most of our clients, downloading our data in bulk files is most convenient. We can deliver files in various formats (e.g. CSV) via download, S3 to S3 transfer, etc.
API – Some use cases are better suited for on-demand delivery of data via an API.