Your agreement with Fidelity may prevent you from answering this, but would you be willing to share the urls the old Fidelity provider pinged for daily price and split data?

Fidelity decommissioned WLP mainly because of high per-user data costs. I assume the old endpoints are down too.

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I assume the old endpoints are down too.

My understanding is that it is still possible to use them. However, I won't know for sure until I try them.

You're right, it's not part of our contract.

Do you have any interest in creating a "FFree" provider? That's where I was going with this question, but since you already have it 99% coded . . . .

Okay, a data provider to hack into Fidelity's data stream and get the data for free. The reasonable next step would be a broker provider to trade Fidelity accounts from WLD! :)

Without knowing what the urls are, I don't know the extent to which it would be hacking. Ethically, I assume this isn't that different than what you did with the old BBFree provider.

If you do make a data provider available, my suggestion would be to throttle it. I didn't realize how many people were downloading 1 minute bars. Using too much data might make a good thing disappear.

Sorry for not expressing myself well. I just wanted to tell that this cannot be considered. It's not part of the contract, we are not allowed to do this. Forget about it.

OK. Consider it forgotten.

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Fidelity decommissioned WLP mainly because of high per-user data costs. I assume the old endpoints are down too.

It's my understanding WLP used its own separate data feed provider for price data, which was independent of what other Fidelity tools (like ATP) use. So it would make sense to shut it down after decommissioning.

What would have been better is for WLP to use the same data feed provider as their other tools so it wouldn't cost Fidelity extra. And there was a development effort to switch data feed providers for WLP for some time, although the reason for switching providers was never given. At any rate, switching would be a complex and expensive task since hardware would also be involved.

I will say, it does make good sense that a major brokerage firm would support some kind of simulation (i.e. backtesting) tool for trading. And if the tool is exclusively for their own customers, they can give--but not sell--the data away to them, which Fidelity did with WLP.