Historical Intraday VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) Indicies Data VIX (VIX_)

VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) Contract Specs:

VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) (VIX)
AKA:	VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500)
Exchange Name:	CBOE Market Data Indices
Exchange:	MDI
Sector:	Index
Tick Size:	0.01
BPV:	100
Denomination:	USD
Bloomberg Symbol:
CSI Symbol:	VIX
Ninjatrader Symbol:	VIX_

Contract Specifications VIX

Buy VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) Indicies Data VIX (VIX_)

Purchase VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) Indicies Data VIX (VIX_) from PortaraCQG. Our tailored service includes your format options. ALL data is created for you by a qualified trader. We provide expert guidance if you are unsure. we will email you when your purchase has completed with roll/format options to choose from.

VIX (VIX_) Historic Indicies Data: Available

Data Type	Start Date	End Date	Size	Sample Data
Daily:	1990 Jan 02	Current	< 50 KB	Download
Intraday:	2003 Sep 22	Current	< 10 MB	Download
Tick - Trades Only:		Current
Tick - Level 1:		Current

All sample data is timestamped Chicago Local (GMT-6) | Filesizes are uncompressed ascii csv

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Purchase daily or intraday 1 minute bar individual or continuous data here. Email for tick (trades only) and Level 1 tick data special offers

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Daily Intraday

Special Offers

Data Granularity	Market Replay Compatible	Indicators & Strategies Compatible	Available History	Price
Daily - Continuous File	no	yes	From 1987 - Current	$180
Daily - Individual Files	no	yes	From 1987 - Current	$180
Intraday (1 Min) - Continuous File	no	yes	From 1987 - Current	$220
Intraday (1 Min) - Individual Files	no	yes	From 1987 - Current	$220
Tick - Trades Only (No Bids & Asks) - Individual Files	yes	yes	From 2014 - Current	$695
Tick - Level 1 - Individual Files - 1 Data Series that contains the Trade Price (i.e. Last) with the corresponding Bid & Ask on each row	yes	yes	From 2014 - Current	$895
Tick - Level 1 - Individual Files - 3 Separate Data Series of Bid, Ask & Last	no	yes	From 2014 - Current	Price on application (varies with data size)

Portara is the approved historical data provider for NinjaTrader
Usually tick data, especially Level 1 tick data, which contains the bids and asks, is very expensive and extremely large in size.
To help NinjaTrader users, Portara has created highly discounted historical data sets that you can import directly into NinjaTrader without headaches. Full import step-by-step instructions are given.

Daily Data

The format is:
yyyyMMdd;open price;high price;low price;close price;volume

Sample data:
20061023;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;86
20061024;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;27
20061025;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;24
20061026;1377.50;1377.50;1377.25;1377.25;82

Intraday (1 Min) Data

The format is:
yyyyMMdd HHmmss;open price;high price;low price;close price;volume

Sample data:
20061023 004400;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;86
20061023 004500;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;27
20061023 004600;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;1377.25;24
20061023 004700;1377.50;1377.50;1377.25;1377.25;82

Tick – Trades Only (No Bids & Asks) Data

Only the historical trades (known as ‘last’ in NinjaTrader) are purchased. The data is a less expensive than Level 1 tick and also is 10 to 100x smaller in size. It is easy to manipulate and much faster to import into NinjaTrader. NOTE: If you can manage without the bids and asks in your strategy or for your ‘NinjaTrader Playback’ requirements, then this route will be best.

NinjaTrader is now capable of using tick – trades only data for Market Replay and Playback regardless of the old note in the NinjaTrader help files saying the opposite. See the video below for details of how to do that:
Because there are no bids and asks in Tick – Trades Only data, NinjaTrader simulates the bids and asks when in Market Replay Playback mode.

Watch the video below on how to transform your ‘historical data’ into ‘market replay’ data within NinjaTrader and then use that ‘market replay’ data in Playback:

Tick Format (with Second Granularity)

The format is:
yyyyMMdd HHmmss;price;volume

Sample data:
20061107 000431;1383.00;1
20061107 000456;1383.25;25
20061107 000456;1383.25;36
20061107 000537;1383.25;14

Tick Format (with Millisecond Granularity)

The format is:
yyyyMMdd HHmmss fffffff;price;volume

Sample data:
20061107 000431 1000000;1383.00;1
20061107 000456 1000000;1383.25;25
20061107 000456 2000000;1383.25;36
20061107 000537 7000000;1383.25;14

Tick – Trades Level 1 (with Bids & Asks) Data

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SPECIAL DEAL FOR NINJATRADER USERS
As an example, ES in its raw form is 500 GB (1/2TB) in size. It would be impossible to read this into NinjaTrader due to its enormous size.
To help, Portara will parse through the Level 1 CQG data sets, extracting the bid and ask at the time of each trade and placing it into the required NinjaTrader format.
This means that you do not have to purchase the Level 1 data at all from us. This saves you thousands of dollars and weeks of unnecessary programming and parsing time.

You can also import historical tick data to be used with ‘Tick Replay’, which includes the current bid and ask prices associated with the last price of that tick (not to be confused with Playback “Market Replay” data which CANNOT import manually).

Tick – Including Trades Bids & Asks (with Millisecond Granularity)
synonymous with Tick Replay Format (with Millisecond Granularity)

The format is:
yyyyMMdd HHmmss fffffff;last price; bid price; ask price;volume

The algorithm for bids and asks needs to be as follows otherwise the data will NOT import in:

Bid price must remain below or equal to trade price
Ask price must remain above or equal to trade price.
Portara deals with this algorithm so your data will read successfully into the NT platform.

Please email us with your requirements using the widget, contact form or email info@portaracqg.com for more information.

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Format Details for VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) VIX (VIX_)

Alternative VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) Symbology:

Other companies can refer to the VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) symbols by the following symbol names: VIX VIX_ .

Portara and CQG provide historical intraday futures data to CTAs, hedge funds, portfolio managers, quants and traders and institutions.

Portara's Main Data Products

VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) futures data can be split into four main headings:

Daily data - which includes either the last price or the settlement
Intraday data – which includes trade volume
Tick data – Trades Only - which includes only trades
Tick data Level 1 - which includes the trades, the bid, the ask and the settle

Purchase Individual or Continuous form Data

You can purchase historical intraday VIX / VIX_ futures data as individual contracts or in a continuous form.

Continuous 1 minute VIX / VIX_ futures data can be formatted into back-adjusted, forward-adjusted, ratio adjusted and zero adjusted series. Portara can create bespoke rules for each futures VIX contract based on volume, open interest, tick size and calendar date variations. Control delivery month combinations, timezone settings and timestamps that follow exchange or local time globally for any location.

World's Only Data Supplier with FIVE DAILY Data Points

Portara’s standard VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) daily futures data is made up of five data points – open, high, low, last-price and settle. Simply choose to have the daily close based on the last price or the settle depending on whether you wish follow extended sessions or just the day session.

VIX_ Data Granularity

Portara’s VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) intraday futures data is supplied as default in 1-minute bar. However, you may also choose other bar granularities such as 2 minute bar, 3 minute bar, 5 minute bar, 10 minute bar, 15 minute bar, 30 minute bar, hourly bar etc. You can also have us extract daily VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) data straight from the intraday database. In this case, you would choose the session (even if you need to cross midnight) and we can supply the custom VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) daily futures data between only between the custom session markers you choose.

Portara provides VIX_ futures tick data in ‘Trades Only’ form or as ‘Level 1’ tick data, which includes the bids and asks. Download the tick data samples above. Our default format timestamp is to the millisecond. VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) tick data includes price, the trade volume, and other trade indicators such as bid, ask, trade and settle.

Remember to compare the file size of trades only data to level 1 tick data as they can vary by factors of 10 to 100 fold. If you have questions simply email us and one of our technicians will guide you.

Updates

All of our historical data is updated on a daily basis up to four times per day based on your subscription level, at the end of the Asian, European, Early US and Globex session. Portara’s enterprise software solution provides timely updates to your data, along with compression, roll and custom formatting features on CQG deep history databases. Historical VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) data updates are ready around half an hour after markets close. No exchange fees or other CQG products are necessary.

Portara's Catalogue of Historical VIX Volatility Index (S&P 500) Futures Data VIX_

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