OneTick & KX: Together in Action

By the OneTick & KX Team

In the high-stakes world of capital markets, the race from "tick to signal" is defined by two critical factors: the quality of your data and the speed of your analytics. Historically, firms have struggled to bridge the gap between these two, often relying on fragmented tech stacks that slow down time-to-value.

With the combination of OneTick and KX, that gap has closed. With high-quality, on-demand market data and a world-leading analytics engine, we deliver a unified platform that empowers firms to move with greater confidence across research, trading, and compliance.

OneTick and KX come together to transform capital markets operations, here’s how:

The Fuel: Global Market Data

For analytics to be effective, the underlying data must be impeccable. OneTick Cloud serves as the premier fuel for the analytics engine, providing a fully managed, on-demand service that eliminates the "plumbing" headaches of data ingestion.

We provide instant access to global market data from over 200 equities, futures, and options exchanges. Crucially, this is not just raw data; it is pre-normalized, cleaned, and corporate-action-adjusted, meaning quants and developers no longer need to spend weeks scrubbing data before they can run a single backtest.

Key capabilities of the our data foundation include:

• Deep Granularity: Access to full depth-of-book (L2/L3), market-by-order, and quote data.
• Unified History and Real-Time: A single source for both historical replay and streaming real-time data, ensuring signal alignment.
• Ready for AI: High-quality data is paramount for AI and ML use cases; we ensure the "garbage in" problem is solved before the data ever reaches the model.

The Engine: AI-Driven Analytics

Once the data is available, we provide the horsepower to process it. Built on kdb+, the world’s fastest time-series database, the unified OneTick KX platform is designed for environments where milliseconds shape outcomes.

We allow firms to ingest the massive volumes of market data provided by OneTick and process it with unmatched speed and efficiency.

Key capabilities of our analytics engine include:

• Unrivaled Speed: Delivering analytical latency as low as .0224 milliseconds, we are optimized for the most demanding compute efficiency.
• Vector Native: KDB.AI brings vector database capabilities to capital markets, enabling advanced similarity searches and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) workflows.
• Scalability: Whether on-premise or in the cloud, we scale to handle billions of trades and complex event processing without performance degradation.

Together in Action: Reducing Time from Tick to Signal

The true power lies in the integration. OneTick Cloud provides instant, high-quality global market data that seamlessly fuels powerful compute engines. This combination offers customers an end-to-end solution from a single vendor, significantly compressing the research-to-production lifecycle.

Why this combination wins:

1. Zero Engineering Overhead: Instead of building and maintaining complex feed handlers and data lakes, firms can stream normalized data directly into state of the art analytics environments.
2. Smarter AI Models: By feeding KX’s vector-native AI engine with OneTick’s precision-cleaned data, firms can develop more accurate predictive models and automated trading strategies.
3. Unified Workflow: From backtesting strategies on decades of OneTick historical data to deploying them in real-time, the workflow is seamless.

Real-World Impact

Consider a global ETF issuer or broker-dealer needing to run transaction cost analysis (TCA) and surveillance across multiple asset classes. Previously, this required stitching together disparately sourced feeds and struggling with slow legacy databases.

Firms can ingest real-time feeds and basket data, run complex streaming calculations for intraday alerts, and store multi-year histories for regulatory reporting—all while reducing operational overhead and accelerating decision-making.

By uniting the best in data with the best in analytics, OneTick and KX are setting the standard, turning data obstacles into competitive opportunities.

To get to know our experienced team at OneTick & KX, please get in touch with Ross Dubin, SVP Global Services by phone at +1 (201) 710-5977 or by email at ross@onetick.com.

Learn more at onetick.com, kx.com or request a private demo here.

Best wishes,

The OneTick & KX Team