Data Overview

1,391 U.S. equities and ETFs. 1-minute bars. December 2002 through present.

1,391

Tickers

1.5+B

Bars (Clean)

5,847

Trading Days

27

Academic Variables

Browse the full ticker list — searchable and filterable by sector, type (Stock/ETF), and index membership (S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, Dow 30).

Coverage by liquidity quintile

Tickers are sorted by average daily dollar volume into five quintiles. Data quality varies systematically with liquidity.

Quintile Tickers Description Avg. gap rate Data completeness
Q5 (most liquid) 278 Large-cap, heavily traded (AAPL, MSFT, SPY...) 2.1%
Q4 278 Mid-to-large cap 8.4%
Q3 279 Mid-cap 18.7%
Q2 278 Small-to-mid cap 32.5%
Q1 (least liquid) 278 Small-cap, thinly traded 51.8%

Gap rate = fraction of the 390-bar daily grid (09:30–15:59 ET) with no observed trade.

Data sources

Important: The data source changes at March 2022. Pre-2022 data is from the full consolidated tape (all exchanges). Post-2022 data is from IEX Exchange only (~2–3% of volume). See Known Issues for detailed implications for research.

PiTrading (pre-March 2022)

Full consolidated tape — CTA (NYSE-listed) and UTP (Nasdaq-listed) feeds. Captures all trades across all U.S. equity exchanges. Same underlying data as CRSP and TAQ. One-minute OHLCV bars, split and dividend adjusted.

Coverage: December 2002 – March 2022 (45 tickers back to January 1991)

IEX Exchange HIST (post-March 2022)

Single exchange only — IEX Exchange pcap files, parsed into one-minute OHLCV bars. IEX represents approximately 2–3% of consolidated volume. Volume and trade counts are substantially lower than the full tape. Some tickers may have no IEX trades on a given day.

Coverage: March 2022 – present (updated daily)

IEX Exchange HIST is the only free, redistributable source of U.S. equity intraday data.

Available timeframes

Both versions (Raw and Clean) are available in eight timeframes, aggregated from the base 1-minute bars:

1-min
Base data
5-min
15-min
30-min
Hourly
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
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