About Us
Tick Data
Passionately focused on data quality
Tick Data is passionately focused on data quality. And with data as far back as 1974, our offering is one of the largest of its kind.
For over 30 years, the world’s largest investment banks, asset managers, proprietary traders and universities have relied upon our historical intraday stock, futures, options and forex data to back-test trading strategies, develop risk and execution models, perform post-trade analysis, and conduct important academic research.
Tick Data History
As always, Tick Data remains committed to being the premier provider of global historical data solutions.
In 1984, Tick Data was founded by a futures broker and a programmer as the first company in the world to offer historical tick-by-tick prices on the futures and index markets. Despite severe limitations in computer hardware technology, they developed a collection and compression system capable of capturing and storing every tick in the major U.S. futures markets. In the mid-1990s, Tick Data was acquired by Futures Magazine Group in Chicago, IL.
In June 1999, Tick Data was acquired by one of its clients, who saw the potential in furnishing other institutional clients with data that meets their stringent requirements. During this period, Tick Data expanded its data offering to include U.S. equities.
In January 2005, the company was sold to Penson Worldwide, Inc. Penson made Tick Data a division of their technology subsidiary, Nexa Technologies, Inc., a provider of direct access trading platforms, real-time market data, and exchange connectivity. Guided by the same leadership team, Tick Data continued to grow with the help of sales, support, and development experts who specialize in market data. The team significantly expanded the futures and cash index data universe, and added U.S. equity and index options and several global equity markets.
After eight successful years of growth, in May 2013, Tick Data was spun off from Nexa/Penson and acquired by its long-time management team, with additional funding from the Tactex F1 Private Equity Fund.
In 2015, Tick Data was sold to OneMarketData, LLC, makers of the industry-leading database and analytics platform, OneTick. Together, OneTick and Tick Data form a perfect marriage of analytics and data, offering Tick Data clients the same research-quality data they’ve always demanded with even more delivery options and a data offering that continues to expand every year.
Meet Our Leaders
The People Behind The Leading Market Data Technology
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Scott Mayster - Global Product Manager
Scott Mayster joined Tick Data in March 1999. His responsibilities managing the Tick Data product line include running day-to-day operations, developing new products and tools, marketing, and sales. Originally hired for his extensive experience analyzing market data, Mr. Mayster also brought an understanding of the needs of professional traders and analysts. Prior to Tick Data, he worked as a floor clerk at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a futures broker, and a trading system analyst/developer.
Mr. Mayster began trading while a student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he received a degree in Economics. Early on in his studies, he became enamored with the behaviors of market participants and their effects on the financial markets and overall economy. He then received a MS in Financial Markets and Trading/Finance from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Gary Martin, Manager of Market Information Systems
Gary Martin joined Tick Data in May of 2001. He oversees the collection, processing and archiving of Tick Data’s extensive repository of high frequency market information. Mr. Martin has more than 30 years experience in research and analysis, including more than 25 years specific to the financial industry. He also has been a student of the markets since September 1987 on both a personal and professional level. As Tick Data’s chief quality assurance manager, Mr. Martin has helped to build and strives to maintain the organization’s reputation as the premier provider of global historical intraday data.
Before working at Tick Data, Mr. Martin worked for five years at the Hulbert Financial Digest, now a service of CBS MarketWatch, where he had responsibility for analysis and performance verification of over 170 financial advice newsletters and their portfolio transactions. Prior to working for Mark Hulbert, Mr. Martin was public school teacher for eleven years. He received his BS and MA in Education from the University of New Mexico.
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Matt Basio - Manager, Client Services
Matt Basio joined Tick Data in 2017 with over 16 years of experience in software development, technical support, and customer service. As the manager of Client Services, Mr. Basio is Tick Data’s primary support contact, responsible for upholding Tick Data’s industry-leading standard of customer service. Previously, Mr. Basio worked at several technology and financial services firms in numerous customer-facing roles. At Visual Mining and Tervela, he provided support to numerous Fortune 500 companies, top educational institutions, and government agencies. He has also wrote technical documents, built pre-sales proof-of-concepts, and managed product QA testing, gaining significant experience documenting bugs and feature changes.