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Market data · Setup

Connect your Tiingo data key

StrategyXL gets its market data from Tiingo using your own free API key — bring-your-own, so prices flow straight from Tiingo to your spreadsheet without passing through us. It's a one-time setup of about five minutes, and your key stays on your machine.

Step 1 · Get a free Tiingo API key

  1. 1 Go to tiingo.com and click Sign-up. The free Starter plan is plenty for normal use.
  2. 2 Confirm your email when Tiingo sends the verification link.
  3. 3 Back at tiingo.com, click your username → Account, then API in the left menu, and copy the long string in the API Token box.
The Tiingo Account page: the API menu item highlighted in the left sidebar and the API Token box on the right with a copy button.
On tiingo.com: Account → API → copy the token. · Click to enlarge.
The Tiingo Account page: the API menu item highlighted in the left sidebar and the API Token box on the right with a copy button.

Step 2 · Enter it in StrategyXL

In Excel, open the StrategyXL ribbon → Tiingo Key, paste the token you just copied into the API key field, and click Save. That's a one-time setup per machine — every feature that needs market data uses this key from now on. To confirm it works, click Test Connections on the ribbon for a quick OK/fail check.

The StrategyXL Tiingo API Key dialog in Excel, with a built-in how-to-get-a-key checklist, an API-key field, and Save and Close buttons.
The Tiingo API Key dialog — it even lists how to get a free key. Paste your token and click Save. · Click to enlarge.
The StrategyXL Tiingo API Key dialog in Excel, with a built-in how-to-get-a-key checklist, an API-key field, and Save and Close buttons.

Good to know

The free tier

Tiingo's free Starter plan covers 30+ years of end-of-day prices on U.S. stocks and ETFs, with 500 unique symbols per month, 50 requests per hour, and 1 GB of bandwidth per month — plenty for typical personal use. If you batch across many tickers or run long historical backtests, Tiingo's paid plans lift those caps.

Your key stays yours

Your API token is stored in a local database on your machine. StrategyXL never sees it — it only travels between your copy of Excel and Tiingo's servers.

New to StrategyXL? The QuickStart walks through install, license, and this key in order. Want live data too? See the Schwab connection guide.

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