India · Data feed
Use TrueData data for backtesting with your AI coding agent.
Super Algo Kit helps you use TrueData data for backtesting and paper runs inside your own AI coding agent. TrueData is an Indian market data vendor, reported to cover NSE, BSE and MCX with live ticks, bars and history. It places no orders, so you pair it with a broker card. Backtests and paper runs come before any live step.
broker facts
TrueData Market Data API
- What it is
- An Indian market data vendor. Data only: it cannot place, modify or cancel orders.
- Coverage
- NSE, BSE and MCX, including derivatives: live ticks and bars, plus history (reported).
- History depth
- Reported defaults: 5 trading days of ticks, 6 months of intraday bars, 10 years or more of daily bars.
- Request limits
- One symbol per history request. Minute-bar history is reported at 10 requests a second.
- Login
- A real-time account allows one login at a time. A second login is refused as already connected.
- Paper option
- A hosted sandbox page for subscribers. Trials and a 15-minute delayed free plan are reported.
- Pricing
- Quoted by exchange segment, symbol count and data type, not published as a list (reported).
From the kit's TrueData card, checked 2026-09-30. Confirm current terms on TrueData's own site.
Paper first
A TrueData bot, built paper first.
Super Algo Kit runs inside the coding agent you already use. It interviews you, writes the spec with pass marks set first, then builds, backtests and paper-tests. Real money starts only when you type the authorize command.
The plan, step by step
Tick them off as you go.
How TrueData access and login work
TrueData issues a user id and password for its API. Prices depend on exchange segments, symbol count and data type, and its API team quotes after reviewing your needs. A trial of up to 10 days is reported, with a paid 10-day extension.
A real-time account allows one login at a time, and a second login is refused as already connected. A force-logout method drops other sessions, so use it only when you own every session. Keep the user id and password in the environment, never in the repository or chat.
How much TrueData history you get for backtesting
By default, TrueData is reported to keep tick data for the last 5 trading days and intraday bars for 6 months. Daily bars are reported to go back 10 years or more. Longer intraday research needs another source or a vendor extension.
History comes one symbol per request, so backfilling 200 symbols takes a queue rather than a loop. Corporate-action adjustment and expired futures and options data are not confirmed. The kit paces history calls at half the stated rate, its own setting.
Paper trading with TrueData data
A hosted sandbox page lets subscribers test real-time and end-of-day requests. Trials and a free plan with 15-minute delayed data are reported; check that your plan includes the API. Data from a delayed plan must carry its delay in every paper report.
TrueData places no orders, so a paper run pairs it with a broker card such as Dhan or Zerodha Kite. Paper runs and backtests send no orders, so they need no static IP. Live API orders at your broker need a registered static IP since 1 April 2026.
TrueData limits and costs to plan for
The published limits come from support articles last updated about four years ago. Confirm them, and the licence terms, with TrueData before you size a plan.
- Tick history: reported 5 requests a second, 300 a minute, 18,000 an hour.
- Minute-bar history: reported 10 a second, 600 a minute, 18,000 an hour.
- Live stream: one login, with a symbol limit set by your plan.
- Symbols are a budget: subscribing beyond your plan fails.
- Licence terms are not confirmed, so the kit assumes you may not show or share the data.
What Super Algo Kit does with TrueData
The kit wraps any TrueData SDK behind its own client and treats the feed as data only. It never lets a live socket stand in for fresh data.
- Tracks connection, tick age and symbol coverage as three separate health checks.
- Reconciles tick-built bars with official minute bars after the close.
- Queues history requests at half the vendor's stated rate.
- Sizes subscriptions to your plan's symbol limit, with one client per login.
- Labels any delayed or fallback quote as degraded.
Before you rely on it
Gotchas to plan for.
- One login at a time: a restarted bot can be refused while the old session lives.
- A force logout also kicks any other tool you run on that login.
- Tick history covers only 5 trading days by default, as reported.
- The published limits and history depths come from years-old articles.
- Speed figures on TrueData's pages are the vendor's own claims; the kit has not measured them.
- Timestamp format and volume meaning are not confirmed, so time-sensitive logic uses receive time.
FAQ
TrueData: questions.
Can I use TrueData for backtesting?
Yes, within TrueData's history limits. By default it reportedly keeps 5 trading days of ticks and 6 months of intraday bars. Daily bars reportedly go back 10 years or more. Super Algo Kit queues history requests and includes trading costs in every backtest.
Can TrueData place orders?
No. TrueData is a data feed only, so you pair it with a broker card such as Dhan or Zerodha Kite. Live API orders then follow your broker's rules, including the static IP required since 1 April 2026. This is not legal advice.
Can I paper trade with TrueData data?
Yes. A hosted TrueData sandbox page lets subscribers test requests, and trials and a delayed free plan are reported. Super Algo Kit labels delayed data in every paper report, and paper runs send no orders.
How much does the TrueData API cost?
TrueData quotes prices by exchange segment, symbol count and data type instead of publishing a list. A trial of up to 10 days is reported. Check current terms and taxes with the vendor.
Is Super Algo Kit affiliated with TrueData?
No. Super Algo Kit is not affiliated with or endorsed by TrueData. The name is used only to say the kit can work with its data. Any TrueData plan is a separate cost.
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TrueData Market Data API and its logo are trademarks of their owner, used here only to say that Super Algo Kit can work with it. Super Algo Kit is not affiliated with or endorsed by TrueData. Super Algo Kit is development software. It is not investment advice, a signal service or a promise of performance. Trading involves substantial risk, including the loss of all capital you trade with.