ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL EDGE GATEWAY: api.meridianaltdata.com ENGINE: BITEMPORAL TIMESCALEDB (PiT)
INSTITUTIONAL MULTI-ASSET POINT-IN-TIME (PiT) TELEMETRY

Emerging Market Physical & Supply Chain Alpha, Normalized for Quants.

Eliminate the 60-day reporting lag across frontier commodity, maritime, energy, and FX markets. Stream bitemporal spot prices, parallel-market clearing spreads, port congestion dwell times, and agro-meteorological stress via a single low-latency REST & CSV API.

Explore OpenAPI Spec →
BITEMPORAL SCHEMA
observed_at / ingested_at
UNIFIED ENDPOINT
/v1/market/timeseries
NATIVE EXPORTS
JSON & Direct CSV
LIVE DB CONNECTED
GET /v1/market/timeseries?limit=5
Querying Meridian TimescaleDB...
Enterprise Data Catalog

Unified Multi-Asset Schemas & Point-in-Time Feeds

WA.AGRI.SPOT 2h Cron

Physical Soft Commodities & Boards

Normalized Metric Ton spot quotes across Akure Wholesale, Lagos AFEX, and Ghana COCOBOD boards paired with official & parallel USD FX rates.

Unit: USD/MT & Local PiT Enabled
NG.NPA.APAPA 4h Cron

Maritime Port Dwell & Manifests

Automated HTML & PDF manifest extraction from port authority shipping positions. Tracks anchorage wait hours, berth dwell, and queue tonnage.

Metric: p90 Dwell Hours PiT Enabled
WA.AGRO.WEATHER 6h Cron

Crop-Belt Soil Moisture & Heat Stress

Root-zone soil moisture (3–9cm), daily precipitation, and >32°C Harmattan heat-stress flags across Ondo (NG), Ashanti (GH), Daloa (CI), and San-Pédro (CI).

Zones: 4 Core Belts PiT Enabled
WA.FX.LIQUIDITY Real-Time

Parallel vs. Official FX Clearing Spread

Embedded inside every physical market tick. Captures true local clearing spreads for exporters and macro funds hedging NGN and GHS exposure.

Pairs: USD/NGN, USD/GHS PiT Enabled
Zero Look-Ahead Bias

One-Line Pandas & Point-in-Time Ingestion

Query any asset class or symbol via /v1/market/timeseries. Pass as_of for strict Point-in-Time backtesting (ingested_at <= as_of) or format=csv to stream directly into pd.read_csv().

meridian_quant_loader.py Python 3.10+ / pandas
import requests
import pandas as pd

API_URL = "https://api.meridianaltdata.com"
HEADERS = {"X-API-Key": "ak_live_quant_demo_998877665544332211"}

# Stream Point-in-Time multi-asset ticks directly into pandas
resp = requests.get(
    f"{API_URL}/v1/market/timeseries",
    headers=HEADERS,
    params={"asset_class": "SOFT_COMMODITY", "as_of": "2026-11-13T12:00:00Z", "limit": 500}
)
df = pd.DataFrame(resp.json()["data"])
df["observed_at"] = pd.to_datetime(df["observed_at"])
print(df[["observed_at", "symbol", "country_iso", "venue_hub", "price_usd_normalized"]].head())
Institutional Licensing

Predictable Multi-Asset Desk Pricing

Dedicated SHA-256 API keys, Point-in-Time historical access, and global edge delivery.

Quantitative Evaluation
$0 / 14-day trial

Self-serve sandbox access for systematic researchers validating alpha signals.

  • ✓ Instant automated sandbox API key
  • ✓ 30 requests / minute rate limit
  • ✓ Full access to Multi-Asset, Port & Weather APIs
Systematic Desk STANDARD
$2,000 / month

Full production license for systematic commodity, macro, and multi-strategy trading pods.

  • ✓ Dedicated Production API Key
  • ✓ 300 requests / minute burst quota
  • ✓ Full Point-in-Time (`as_of`) history
  • ✓ Direct CSV / Pandas bulk stream access
Provision Production Desk →
Enterprise / Custom Feed
$4,500+ / month

Custom field-collector pipelines, metals/energy telemetry, & dedicated SLA.

  • ✓ 1,200 requests / minute rate limit
  • ✓ Custom regional hub & port telemetry
  • ✓ 99.9% SLA + dedicated data engineering
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