IEX Cloud

An IEX Cloud Overview: A high-level explanation of the platform and the data available to you.

• Credits: The fundamental units on IEX Cloud used to access data.
• The IEX Cloud API: How to use it and where to begin.
• Excel, Widgets and Rules Engine: Get data codelessly through other easy-to-use methods beyond API calls.
• Get stock prices, fundamentals, forex data, crypto data, and over 150 other datasets all through a single API and a single IEX Cloud subscription, with flexible plans designed to fit your use case.
• building customized trading algorithms, to automating Excel spreadsheets, to using data science
• https://iexcloud.io/community/blog/algorithmic-trading-using-python-a-beginners-course-from-freecodecamp
• IEX Cloud tracks your platform usage and charges on the basis of credits.https://iexcloud.io/community/blog/portfolio-risk-management-with-python-from-correlation-to-diversification
• Every API endpoint has a data weight, or a certain number of credits that are used every time you make an API call
• Sandbox testing allows you to test randomized data for free
• Modern Portfolio Theory, or MPT, is one such effort to reduce risk. MPT argues that an investor can construct a portfolio that will maximize returns for a given level of risk by collecting assets based on their correlations, positive or negative. Ie NVIDIA correlates with Microsoft but Allstate does not…