Polygon API Overview
Explore the Polygon API and understand how it provides real-time and historical data on various financial securities such as stocks, options, forex, and crypto. Learn about its key endpoints to retrieve market status, news, prices, and technical indicators essential for financial analysis.
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What is Polygon?
Polygon provides developers with real-time financial market data APIs, which help make trading prediction algorithms or display historical data about different securities. The securities currently supported by Polygon include stocks, options contracts, forex, and cryptocurrency.
Polygon API overview
Polygon provides various APIs to gather data about securities. Some of the important tasks we can carry out using Polygon APIs are:
Getting details and recent news about various securities.
Getting data about the previous opening and closing prices of securities.
Getting the moving average of various securities.
Getting the status of different marketplaces.
Available endpoints
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