Institutional Market Data Engine
Python / SQLite / Streamlit / market-data validation
What this project is
Institutional Market Data Engine is the public-facing proof surface for the market-data analytics lane. It consolidates the older "Python Market Data Dashboard" wording into one clearer public-facing project: a private Python, SQLite, and Streamlit workspace for ingestion, storage, dashboard review, risk summaries, and validation-oriented market-data experiments.
The implementation remains private. This page explains the architecture and evidence boundary without exposing credentials, token files, local databases, broker/account data, webhook payloads, Discord/n8n/TradingView state, or production experiments.
What it demonstrates
- Python ingestion and normalization patterns for authorized market-data sources.
- Duplicate-aware SQLite storage using repeatable relational tables.
- Streamlit and Plotly dashboarding for human review of market conditions.
- Risk and volatility summaries such as drawdown, VaR-style views, correlation, implied-volatility notes, and expected-move framing.
- Source-governance discipline around what is public, private, experimental, and production-only.
- Quant-adjacent research maturity without claiming a live trading system or professional quant production platform.
Architecture
- Authorized or public source access feeds Python ingestion scripts.
- Python normalizes symbols, date ranges, price fields, and metadata.
- SQLite stores market-data snapshots and derived review tables locally.
- Pandas and NumPy prepare feature sets, summary views, and validation checks.
- Streamlit and Plotly expose dashboard views for human review.
- Research outputs are separated from production claims through notes, validation gates, and public/private boundaries.
How this connects to QuantStrat ML
QuantStrat ML is a related research lane, not the same public project. The market-data engine proves ingestion, storage, dashboard review, and source-governance discipline. QuantStrat ML proves backtesting discipline, expected-move research, options/volatility analysis, no-lookahead validation, and model/evaluation artifacts.
Together, they support a public-safe Market & Quant Analytics Lab narrative:
- Institutional Market Data Engine: market-data engineering and dashboard review.
- QuantStrat ML Research Framework: model evaluation, backtesting, and volatility research.
- Market Data Dashboard Docs: governance, dashboard observability, and public/private source boundaries.
- Production quant runtime: private/internal only.
How this connects to Market Data Dashboard Docs
Market Data Dashboard Docs remains a supporting proof shell for the dashboard and source-governance layer. Institutional Market Data Engine is the clearer primary portfolio title, while the dashboard docs explain related workflow boundaries, validation expectations, and why private runtime state stays private.
Public / private boundary
Public:
- architecture summaries;
- sanitized diagrams and code excerpts;
- public-facing project explanation;
- synthetic or public-safe examples after review;
- validation and privacy notes.
Private:
- API keys, OAuth tokens,
.envfiles, broker credentials, and webhook secrets; - SQLite runtime databases and exported account-specific artifacts;
- private watchlists, local machine paths, trading logs, Discord/n8n/TradingView operational state;
- production quant runtime code and broker/account-specific workflows.
What this does not claim
- It is not a live trading system.
- It is not broker automation.
- It is not a professional production quant platform.
- It does not expose account-specific data or private trading records.
- It does not claim current professional quant trader, quant developer, or quant researcher experience.
Public docs path
Professional relevance
This project demonstrates market-data, financial-data, BI, data-analysis, and quant-adjacent analytics relevance through a governed workflow that separates ingestion, dashboard review, model experiments, validation notes, and private runtime state."