kibot

About Kibot

Kibot is a vendor of historical market data covering US stocks and ETFs, futures, and forex pairs, with depth ranging from 64 years of daily bars down to tick-by-tick records that include bid and ask. The company sells data packages outright and offers an optional monthly update subscription on top, with delivery through a free desktop agent, an FTP server, a REST API, and direct browser-friendly download links. Customer support and contact run through the contact form.

Products and data coverage

The product line is organised around historical data packages that are bought once and optionally kept fresh through subscription Data updates. Coverage extends 64 years back in the daily timeframe, more than 28 years in the minute-by-minute timeframe, and over 17 years of tick-by-tick data including bid and ask prices recorded at the moment of each transaction. For intraday data the earliest record is 1/2/1998 or the company's IPO date, whichever is later. Packages cover stocks, ETFs, forex pairs, and futures contracts including continuous-contract series, and many delisted companies are included alongside the active ones, the Buy page lists every instrument together with its start date and file size.

Daily data is bundled free with any tick or minute purchase: customers who buy a 1-minute package automatically receive the daily equivalent, and tick buyers receive both 1-minute and daily for the same instruments. Free sample data, full one-minute and tick history for selected stocks and ETFs, is available from the Free samples page, alongside a large amount of free daily US stock and ETF data that can be kept current with Kibot Agent.

Tools and delivery

Three first-party tools sit in front of the data. Kibot Agent is a free Windows GUI that downloads and updates data on a schedule, supports custom timezone offsets, and natively writes NinjaTrader formats. Kibot API is a REST endpoint at api.kibot.com that powers Kibot Agent internally and is also offered directly to customers; a guest account exists for testing. The FTP server distributes compressed RAR archives of weekly and daily updates and is intended only for updates, not for first-time bulk delivery. Direct download links to the most recent file versions are also exposed from the My Account area for use with browsers, Python, wget, or any download manager. Full operational detail for all four channels lives in Data updates.

Data philosophy

Kibot sources price and volume data from multiple exchanges and ECNs rather than from a single venue, and the recorded bid and ask prices represent the National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO), the same SEC-mandated construct that brokers must honour under Regulation NMS. This means a real-time feed from a customer's broker should match Kibot's data, since both are NBBO-consolidated rather than single-exchange. Tick records are not aggregated: every transaction is included in consecutive order, with the prevailing best bid and ask captured at the moment of the trade.

The published support material is open about the limits of this approach. Some trades fall outside the best bid/ask spread because available liquidity at the first level is exhausted, because large block trades are reported by upstairs desks, because some liquidity pools are not public, or because marketable limit orders sweep multiple price levels. Kibot does not record bid and ask volume, on the stated reasoning that the SEC has reported roughly 96.8% of orders are cancelled, making volume on the cancellable side an unreliable foundation for any trading strategy. Reference data on contract specifications, trading hours, expiration rules, and holiday calendars is compiled from official exchange sources, primarily CME Group divisions (CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX) and CBOE for VIX, and cross-referenced against Interactive Brokers, Charles Schwab, NinjaTrader, Barchart, and IQFeed documentation. Kibot publishes that source list explicitly so customers can verify the underlying references independently.

Instrument and platform coverage

Index-component packages are a first-class product. Kibot assembles ready-to-buy bundles around the S&P 500, NASDAQ 100, and Dow 30, which means the usual high-liquidity tickers (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, XOM, INTC, CSCO, WMT) arrive in one purchase rather than having to be hand-picked. On the ETF side there are intraday quotes for more than a thousand funds, including SPY, QQQ (and the older QQQQ), DIA, IWM, leveraged pairs like SDS, SKF, FAZ, and FAS, sector funds such as USO and GLD, and the full SPDR, HOLDRs, PowerShares, ProShares, and iShares families. Commission-free ETFs are indexed as a separate browsable slice.

The files are designed to drop into any mainstream technical-analysis or backtesting stack. TradeStation, NinjaTrader, AmiBroker, Wealth-Lab, and MetaStock all accept Kibot exports after a light conversion; one-minute files can be rolled up to any higher interval a strategy needs (2, 3, 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes) without loss of information. This matters operationally because it means a customer buying a single one-minute package can recreate every common chart-trading resolution from the same source, rather than paying per timeframe.

Delivery is oriented around self-service: the automated ordering system processes credit-card payments within seconds through FastSpring and unlocks downloads immediately, which makes Kibot usable for one-off research needs without a sales call. For ongoing work, keeping an on-disk archive current is handled through the update service backed by Kibot Agent, Kibot Updater, and the historical data API, all documented in Data updates and Kibot Agent.

Payments and support

Kibot does not run its own checkout. All ordering, single purchases and recurring subscriptions, is handled by FastSpring acting as Merchant of Record, which collects the payment, issues the invoice, applies any required VAT/GST/sales tax mandated by the buyer's jurisdiction, and manages subscription rebilling. Cancellations and card updates are self-served through the FastSpring portal linked in every receipt email. Full mechanics live in FastSpring payment. Customer support is reached through the contact form; the FAQ specifically advises sending the first message through the web form rather than from a personal mail client to avoid spam-filter problems on the outbound side.

Key takeaways

  • Kibot sells historical market data for US stocks and ETFs, futures, and forex, with up to 64 years of daily, 28 years of minute, and 17 years of tick history including NBBO bid/ask.
  • Daily data is included free with any minute or tick purchase for the same instruments.
  • Four delivery channels (Kibot Agent, Kibot API, FTP, and direct download links) all carry the same data.
  • Prices are NBBO-consolidated across multiple exchanges and ECNs, matching the construct brokers must honour under Regulation NMS.
  • Bid and ask volume is not recorded, on the explicit reasoning that ~96.8% of orders are cancelled.
  • Reference data (contracts, trading hours, holidays) is compiled from CME Group, CBOE, broker docs, and IQFeed, and the source list is published openly.
  • Payments and subscription billing are handled end-to-end by FastSpring as Merchant of Record; Kibot's role is data delivery and support.
  • Data updates, the four delivery channels and the subscription model in detail.
  • Kibot Agent, the free desktop downloader that keeps on-disk archives current.
  • FastSpring payment, how Kibot's checkout, invoicing, and rebilling actually work.
  • Data sources, the published list of upstream exchange and broker references.
  • Data completeness, how Kibot reasons about missing bars, halts, and odd lots.
  • Data format reference, the on-disk format used across all data packages.