Options Technology adds Nasdaq’s six options venues to AtlasFeed

Options Technology has deployed market-data feeds covering all six Nasdaq options exchanges, expanding the coverage available through AtlasFeed. The 21 October announcement names Nasdaq PHLX, Nasdaq Options Market, Nasdaq Texas Options, Nasdaq ISE, Nasdaq GEMX and Nasdaq MRX.[1]

Clients can take the data in native or normalised formats. That choice affects where the work of interpreting exchange messages sits: a firm can retain its own processing of native feeds or consume the provider’s common format across venues.[1]

Delivery choices affect the information applications receive

AtlasFeed’s product documentation describes an API that can deliver selected symbols and event types over TCP or a full multicast feed. Firms can use shared distribution locations or dedicated deployments on their premises, in a colocation facility or in the cloud.[2]

By default, the service supplies every tick without buffering or conflation. Conflation combines updates over an interval; AtlasFeed offers total and trade-safe versions on individual subscriptions. The distinction matters when an application needs the sequence of quote changes, rather than an occasional view of the latest market.[2]

The provider also records normalised streams through TickLogger in the same format as the API, with file availability governed by exchange rules. Using consistent live and recorded formats can simplify the work of comparing an application’s real-time behaviour with the data later used to investigate it.[2]

For brokers and trading firms, the useful consequence is a broader set of venue data within an existing delivery service. The announcement establishes coverage; the appropriate format and update frequency depend on what each downstream application needs to observe.[1]

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