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Founding Developer Programme

Build your trading bot. Get $50 in API credits.

We're inviting 10 independent developers to build with TickFeed. Get access to forex and gold market data, historical candles and built-in data freshness checks.

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10
developers accepted
$50
total API credit per accepted developer
Every one
application reviewed individually

Built for developers building real trading systems.

Market data without operating your own terminal

Live bid and ask for 60 forex pairs and 11 metals, including gold, over a plain REST API, a Python client or MCP for AI tools.

Historical candles for strategies and research

OHLC candles from one minute to daily, paginated for long ranges, for analysis and backtesting.

Know when your data needs attention

Every quote says whether it's fresh, market closed or stale and how old it is. Forming candles are flagged, and gaps are reported, never filled.

Show, don't tell.

The official Python client, pip install tickfeed. Check that gold's price is live before acting on it, then pull a month of complete hourly candles and look for unexplained gaps.

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xauusd.py
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from tickfeed import TickFeed

tf = TickFeed()  # reads TICKFEED_API_KEY

quote = tf.price("XAUUSD")
if quote["freshness"] != "fresh":   # "market_closed" or "stale"
    raise SystemExit(f"Not trading: price is {quote['freshness']}")
print(quote["bid"], quote["ask"], f"{quote['age_seconds']:.1f}s old")

start = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=30)
bars = [b for b in tf.iter_candles("XAUUSD", "H1", start) if b["complete"]]
gaps = tf.gaps("XAUUSD", "H1", start_time=start)["gaps"]
print(len(bars), "complete hourly candles,",
      sum(not g["expected"] for g in gaps), "unexplained gaps")

$50 in credits. Your next project starts here.

The programme is limited to 10 approved external developers. Each receives $50 of promotional API credit in total, usable for TickFeed API requests at the normal prices.

  • For developers working on a genuine project.
  • The $50 includes the standard welcome credit; it is not added on top.
  • Selected applicants receive instructions by email.
  • The credit doesn't expire while your account is open.

Read the programme terms

How it works.

  1. 01

    Apply

    Tell us what you're building and how you plan to use TickFeed.

  2. 02

    Get reviewed

    We review applications and select up to 10 developers whose projects are a good fit.

  3. 03

    Start building

    Accepted applicants confirm their account, receive their credit and start integrating the API.

Tell us what you're building.

We're looking for developers who are actively building trading bots, backtesting tools and other market-data applications.

We use these details only to review your application and contact you about it. See our privacy policy and the programme terms.

Questions.

Who can apply?

Independent developers and small teams who are actively building a trading bot, a backtesting or research tool, a market scanner or another application that uses market data. There are 10 places.

Is the $50 credit really free?

Yes. It is promotional API credit: no card and no subscription. It covers ordinary TickFeed requests at the normal prices ($0.002 per price quote, $0.002 per 100 candles). It has no cash value and can't be withdrawn or refunded. The $50 is the total and includes the standard welcome credit; it is not added on top of it.

Do I need an existing TickFeed account?

No. Apply with the email address you want to use. If you're accepted, create an account (or sign in) with that address and confirm it, and the credit is added automatically.

Can I use TickFeed to execute trades?

No. TickFeed provides market data only: live prices, historical candles and data-quality information. Your bot places orders through your own broker. TickFeed does not execute trades or give investment advice.

What happens after I use my credit?

You can keep going on pay-as-you-go pricing: add funds to your prepaid balance whenever you like. There's no subscription, and when your balance can't cover a request it is declined, never charged.

How are applicants selected?

Every application is reviewed individually, not first come, first served. We look for genuine projects that will make real use of the data. We may email you to ask a question about your project.