
Forex API in Production: REST for Backtesting, WebSocket for Live Data
Most forex data problems in production don’t come from bad data. They come from using the right data through the wrong interface.

Most forex data problems in production don’t come from bad data. They come from using the right data through the wrong interface.

Infoway’s real-time financial news API is live. With the same API key you already use for market data, you can now open a WebSocket and receive a structured stream of global financial news.

Alpha Vantage’s free tier is down to 25 requests/day, and yfinance can throttle or break without notice. Compare what each actually offers, decide if it’s time to migrate, and see field-by-field code mapping to the Infoway API.

The Infoway API Google Sheets add-on is now live. Simply install it and start using formulas to retrieve real-time market data for US, Hong Kong, China, Japan, India, crypto, forex, and commodities—directly in Google Sheets.

Most “get me a company’s fundamentals” projects don’t end up on one API, they end up on three. One product covers the raw financial reports.

If you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance you searched for iexcloud.io API documentation, a pricing page, or a code sample, and landed here instead.

This guide shows how to bulk export candlestick data with Infoway Python SDK and REST API endpoints. All example codes are ready to run.

This guide walks you through an Indian trading day from a developer’s perspective, what the data looks like at each phase, what can go wrong if you don’t account for it, and how to build a pipeline using Infoway API that handles all of it cleanly.

Infoway API provides access to the entire Tokyo Stock Exchange universe, over 3,700 instruments across TSE Prime, Standard, and Growth market tiers with real-time latency under 500ms.

Infoway API aggregates forex price data from major market makers and delivers it through a unified REST and WebSocket interface. For forex, this means genuine real-time rates with latency consistently under 100ms and an SLA of 99.6% uptime.