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Level 3

The BMLL Level 3 dataset offers an order by order view of the order book. Showing every single update to the order book, it provides an in-depth understanding of the historical market activity, enabling users to make more informed trading decisions.

Product Overview

  • Every order update in the order book for the entire day

  • Executions and orders joined together, to see precisely how each order has evolved

  • Normalised market state codes

  • Nanosecond or microsecond precision timestamps, based on order-matching engines

Use Cases

  • Buy-side - accelerate research, backtesting, and transaction cost analysis (TCA) by using the highest quality consolidated data feed
  • Sell-side - backtest execution algos and smart order routers using every order in the book. Demonstrate enhanced best execution to clients using full depth level 3 data
  • Exchanges - contextualise the trading venue landscape at depth by using order level dynamics
  • Market surveillance - see every order behaviour and use it to detect spurious trading patterns

Product Description

  • Asset Classes: Equities and ETFs
  • Coverage: Americas, APAC and EMEA
  • Data available from: 2013
  • Delivery mechanisms: S3
  • Available via: BMLL Data Feed and BMLL Data Lab

Documentation and Sample datasets: