Institutional-Grade Market Data & Analytics for Hedge Funds: Accelerate Time from Tick to Signal

By Jeff Banker, SVP – Product, Data, and Market Development

OneTick Cloud is an institutional managed time-series data and analytics platform relied upon by systematic researchers and traders. It provides instant global market data that seamlessly fuels compute and analytics engines. For hedge funds constrained by legacy databases or home-grown systems, OneTick Cloud offers a single vendor end-to-end solution, significantly reducing the time from tick to signal.

The Challenge: The Infrastructure Bottleneck

Whether you work for a new fund in need of a “Launch Velocity” solution or for an established firm looking to solve a “Scale & Efficiency” problem… Do any of these complaints resonate with you?

“It takes forever to get reliable, cleaned data for new markets.”

“Our backtests and research projects are slowed because data isn’t aligned or optimized.”

“We are storing massive datasets but can’t run point-in-time or order-book queries easily.”

“Infrastructure limits are blocking analytics, replay, or deeper market-microstructure work.”

“I need to be rely on the same data schemas and quality for historical and real time signals”

The Solution: Fully Managed Market Data

OneTick Cloud eliminates the need for local infra structure, offering a fully managed cloud platform with automatic updates.

• Global Multi-Asset Coverage: Access high volume tick, order book, and reference data across 200+ global markets across equities, futures, options, FX, fixed income, crypto, and digital assets.
• Pre-Normalized & Cleaned: Data is curated, adjusted, symbol-mapped, and ready to query immediately, ensuring rapid time-to-analysis.
• Elastic Scale: The platform is designed for bursts of data, whether for heavy backtesting, replay, or stress tests.

For New PM Groups & Fund Launches

• Escape the “Build Trap” (Save 24–51 Weeks): Building a historical data environment is the hidden delay in every fund launch. Sourcing history (4–10 weeks), mapping symbols (5–10 weeks), and managing corporate actions (3–5 weeks) drains months of runway. OneTick Cloud cuts this timeline to 0 days, giving you instant, pre-normalized access to 200+ global markets.
• Preserve Startup Capital: Avoid the >$150,000 upfront CapEx required to build a self-provisioned tick history environment. OneTick Cloud replaces uncertain infrastructure costs with a predictable, fully managed OpEx model, allowing you to allocate capital to talent and alpha generation.
• Institutional Credibility on Day 1: Demonstrate best execution and rigorous backtesting immediately. Access institutional-grade depth-of-book (L2/L3) and “replay-ready” data across Equities, Futures, FX, and Crypto without hiring a data engineering team.

For Established Groups & Enterprise

• Power Your KX Engine: If you are utilizing KX’s industry-leading compute and analytics engines, you need high-quality fuel. OneTick Cloud complements KX by providing instant, global market data that seamlessly feeds your existing engines. This creates an end-to end solution from a single vendor, significantly reducing the time from tick to signal.
• Stop Being “Data Janitors”: Your high-value quant researchers often spend 80% of their time cleaning feeds, handling corporate actions, and aligning timestamps. We automate the “dirty work” of data curation so your team can focus entirely on modeling and strategy.
• Elastic Scale for Burst Workloads: Don’t let infrastructure limits block your research. OneTick Cloud provides elastic compute to handle burst workloads—such as multi-year backtests, market replay, or stress tests—that would otherwise choke local servers.
  

Is OneTick Cloud Right for Your Strategy?

If your team is expressing any of the following symptoms, your current infrastructure is likely capping your performance.

For New PM Groups & Fund Launches

The “New Market” Delay:

The Symptom: You want to trade a new asset class (e.g., Crypto, Futures, or Global Equities), but the lead time to onboard reliable data is measured in months.

The Solution: OneTick Cloud provides instant, normalized access to these markets, turning months of onboarding into minutes.

The Depth Requirement:

The Symptom: Your strategy relies on Market Microstructure or Order Book Dynamics (L2/L3), but you lack the granular history to prove your model.

The Solution: We provide full depth-of-book, market-by-order, and consolidated liquidity data needed for rigorous execution analysis.

For Established Groups & Enterprise

The Engine Starvation:

The Symptom: You have powerful analytics tools (like KX/kdb+), but they are underutilized because your internal data feeds are uncleaned, unaligned, or slow to update.

The Solution: Feed your engine with pre-normalized, “replay-ready” data designed specifically for high-performance analytics.

The Infrastructure Drain:

The Symptom: You are tired of managing local storage, patching servers, and licensing feeds. You want to move to the cloud to reduce TCO.

The Solution: Zero footprint. A fully managed platform that handles updates, maintenance, and scaling automatically.

The 24-Week Advantage: Why Funds Buy Instead of Build

Why spend valuable time ingesting, cleaning, structuring, and normalizing market data from multiple vendors when you can access it instantly?

Data based on standard industry implementation timelines

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Technical Specifications & Accessibility

Data Profile & Quality

• Depth: Includes full depth-of-book (L2/L3), market by-order, and market-by-level structures.
• Adjustments: Handles corporate action adjustments, trading session hours, holidays, and symbol liquidity aggregation.
• History: Unified historical + intraday data engine supporting snapshots and replay-ready data.

Flexible Access Methods

Designed for modern quant workflows, OneTick Cloud supports:

• APIs: Python, SQL, and REST interfaces.
• Bulk Extraction: CSV and Parquet downloads for heavy workloads.
• Integration: Seamlessly integrates into notebooks, internal systems, and downstream analytics.
  

To learn more call Ross Dubin, SVP Global Services at +1 (201) 710-5977 / ross@onetick.com to set up your POC and get to know our experienced team at OneTick | KX.

Visit onetick.com, email info@onetick.com, or request a private demo here.

Contact us today to set up a personalized walkthrough of these new capabilities.

Best wishes,

Jeff Banker