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Welcome to Mboum.com! Our platform equips developers, analysts, and traders with powerful financial and market data through our robust API.

Over the past year I’ve experimented with a bunch of financial data APIs while building trading tools, dashboards, data dashboards, and research side projects. I also came across a detailed comparison article that helped me refine my list.

Explore the stock endpoints of the Mboum API, offering real-time quotes, historical data, financials, analyst ratings, and more. Learn how to integrate stock data into your applications with our comprehensive API.

We're always striving to improve the quality and flexibility of our API services. As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance your experience, we are excited to announce the release of API Version 2.

The best Stock Market APIs are 1. Mboum API 2. SteadyAPI 3. Alpha Vantage 4. Quandl 5. Tiingo 6. Xignite 7. Yahoo Finance API

Learn to detect Unusual Options Activity (UOA) programmatically using the Mboum API. This guide covers filtering volume vs. open interest to identify institutional smart money flows using Python.

Learn how to programmatically track Dividends, Stock Splits, and IPOs using the Mboum API. A comprehensive guide for developers building financial applications.

Learn how to build a specialized trading strategy using Mboum's Technical Indicator API and Python. This tutorial covers fetching SMA data to automate Golden Cross signals without complex manual calculations.

Commodity Channel Index measures how far price has moved from a typical average on the series you choose.

Implied volatility ranks help options scanners find contracts where premium looks rich or quiet relative to the rest of the market, and one highest-IV call returns that sorted list without building the ranking yourself.

Dashboards and portfolio views need many last prices at once, and one batch quote call keeps a holdings table fresh without issuing a separate request for every symbol.

News feeds stay useful when you can narrow them by company or content type, and the Mboum v2 news endpoint returns recent articles with optional ticker and type filters for dashboards, digests, and alert bots.

Named screens keep daily watchlists consistent without rebuilding the same filters by hand, and the Mboum v2 screener returns matching symbols for a metric type and strategy name in one call.

Percent leaders, dollar movers, and gap stocks tell different stories about the same session, and ranking them from one endpoint keeps scanners, morning briefs, and alert bots on the same list.

Intraday charts and short-horizon research need consistent open, high, low, close, and volume bars at minute resolutions.

Homepage crypto widgets usually need a short list of coins people are watching right now.