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23, April, 2026

How Options Flows Move Equity Markets: Insights from High-Quality Historical Data

In this analysis, we demonstrate how you can capture these interconnected market behaviours by combining two complementary datasets: SpiderRock's options volatility surface data to estimate dealer gamma positioning, and BMLL's high-frequency equity market data.

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21 April, 2026

Decoding Geopolitical Risk: A Level 3 Market Microstructure Analysis of Crude Oil at the Start of the Iran War

Geopolitical risk in financial markets is typically understood as a macro phenomenon - stress escalates, supply is threatened, prices spike. But the order book tells a different story. Using BMLL Level 3 data, containing every insert, cancel, and execution at every price level, we show tha...

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19 March, 2026

How Building an Equities Business Changed Our View of Liquidity

Liquidity isn’t just trading volume—it’s fragmented and often hidden across multiple venues. Building an equities business revealed that relying on traditional data gives an incomplete picture, so understanding liquidity requires a broader, more holistic view.

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24 June, 2025

Into the Close: Unpacking U.S. Closing Auction Dynamics and the Impact of the Russell Reconstitution

This article examines U.S. closing auctions and their behavior during the annual Russell Reconstitution. It shows how different exchanges (NYSE, Nasdaq, NYSE Arca) and order types (like NYSE D-Orders) impact price formation, and how auction volumes and imbalances spike on rebalance day. Understanding these dynamics and historical data is key for traders managing execution and risk into the 2025 reconstitution.

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21 May, 2025

Life is a beach … if your data is clean

6 things buy-side traders need to know. Historical data quality is no longer a "nice-to-have" - it is foundational to effective trading.

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14 May, 2025

BMLL’s Big Data Dream: Turning Market Noise Into Market Insight, One Packet at a Time

Paul Humphrey, Chief Executive Officer, BMLL, sat down with John Lothian News at the FIA Boca50 conference. Hear the interview.

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13 May, 2025

A new approach to Level 3 market data

This article is the story of how Optiver became, first, customers of BMLL’S Level 3 historical data, and then investors. It’s also the story of how companies like BMLL, with the help of Optiver, are putting the ‘buy’ into the age-old ‘build versus buy’ question when it comes to historical market data.

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12 May, 2025

Optiver relies on BMLL market data for quant strategy

The market-maker has built its trading business on top of BMLL’s Level 3 data. But the collaboration is young, and the pair have grand plans to make options the next quant frontier.

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2 May, 2025

How Accessible is Off-Book On-Exchange Trading?

A category of trades that has seen increased discussion due to its growing market share is ‘Off-Book On-Exchange’ trades. These are OTC trades that are executed away from an order book, but are reported to an exchange and traded under exchange rules. An important question is - what proportion of this liquidity is accessible to any market participant?

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30 April, 2025

Coming back full circle: my unexpected path to re-joining a historical data provider

Gavin Carey, Head of Content at BMLL, has over 25 years’ experience leading business development, content, technology, and product management teams in the real-time and historical market data space.

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24 April, 2025

The Hive Mind Guide to: Historical Data 2025

In an environment where every player can access up-to-the-minute information, the true differentiator is the ability to harness historical data to forecast trends, optimise algorithms, and refine execution strategies.

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16 April, 2025

The Trump Effect: How Tariffs Rocked Global Equity Markets - in Five Charts

In the ten days since the announcement, global equity markets have gyrated wildly. Using five charts, we examine the magnitude and character of the market's response - through trading volumes, message traffic, and options activity.

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16 April, 2024

US Equity Options, and what you need to know to trade them

Key features of the US options market, and how market participants can leverage the right data to better understand the market, whether that is for traders and researchers generating alpha, brokers looking to improve execution, or exchanges looking to better understand market structure.

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9 April, 2025

How did Trump’s tariffs impact global market structure?

With recent market volatility, we examined the impact of Trump's tariffs on market structure and how people traded.

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31 March, 2025

2025 Vision: Data Consumption is Evolving across Capital Markets

BMLL is proud to be named in the Harrington Starr ‘Most Influential Financial Technology Firms’ list. In this year’s report, BMLL CEO Paul Humphrey identified five key trends shaping the future of our markets, centred on the insatiable demand for granular data and analytics that drive trading decisions.

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