Build competitive market-making strategies with real-time market data and execution infrastructure
Continuously quote both sides of the market, monitor liquidity across exchanges, manage inventory risk, and optimize execution using normalized market data, historical order books, and unified trading infrastructure.
Market making is the process of continuously placing buy and sell orders to provide liquidity while earning the spread between bid and ask prices.
Successful market makers constantly adjust quotes based on changes in market depth, volatility, order flow, and inventory exposure. To remain competitive, these systems require accurate order books, low-latency market data, historical liquidity analysis, and reliable execution across multiple trading venues.
Market making is one of the most data-intensive activities in financial markets.
Quotes must be updated as market conditions change, liquidity can disappear within milliseconds, and every exchange exposes different APIs, symbols, and data formats. Building infrastructure that continuously monitors markets, adjusts prices, manages inventory, and executes orders across venues requires significant engineering effort before strategy development even begins.
Receive normalized real-time trades, quotes, and Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 order book updates from hundreds of exchanges, and continuously adjust bid and ask prices from one consistent feed.
Replay historical trades, quotes, and full order books through Historical APIs or Flat Files to study spread behavior, depth, and market impact before deploying new strategies.
Access normalized market data from 400+ exchanges through a single API, with standardized symbols, timestamps, and schemas for multi-exchange market-making.
Use the Indexes API and Exchange Rates API to compare quoted prices against independent reference values and monitor pricing consistency across markets.
Manage orders, balances, positions, and execution reports across exchanges with the EMS API, using Smart Order Routing, TWAP, and VWAP strategies.
Support growing market-making operations with enterprise-grade infrastructure built for low-latency streaming, high availability, and large-scale delivery.
| What You Need | Before CoinAPI | After CoinAPI |
|---|---|---|
| Maintain competitive bid and ask quotes | Separate market data feeds with inconsistent schemas and latency | One normalized stream of trades, quotes, and Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 order books across hundreds of exchanges |
| Monitor liquidity across markets | Build custom monitoring tools for every exchange | Analyze normalized market depth and liquidity using Market Data API and historical datasets |
| Optimize quoting strategies | Limited historical visibility into spreads and order book behavior | Replay years of historical trades, quotes, and full order books through APIs or Flat Files |
| Manage inventory and execution | Multiple exchange-specific execution systems | Unified order management, balances, positions, execution reports, and Smart Order Routing with EMS API |
| Benchmark quoted prices | Build custom reference pricing models | Use Indexes API and Exchange Rates API for independent pricing benchmarks |
| Expand market-making to new venues | Develop and maintain every exchange integration separately | Access 400+ exchanges through one standardized infrastructure |
