Olsen has been well known for 20 years of pioneering research concentrating on analysis of high-frequency data in finance. In order to support research in this area in the mid 1980s (when computers were slow and storage memory was expensive) - Olsen had to develop its own collection, filtering and database technologies.

Olsen Financial Technologies (OFT) was founded as a spin-off Olsen company with the objective of supplying data to third parties. OFT inherits what is probably the worlds largest^†, tick-by-tick, intra-daily, research-quality^‡ database in the world and continues to advance its inherited collection and filtering technologies with future expansions in mind.

Olsen India plays a key role in helping to support our data customers. Every order is converted into a data-extraction script which generates text data files according to custom format settings.

For selected instruments you may use the Pricing Wizard (see button at left) to get availability and pricing information. Price depends on frequency and number of fields. If you proceed to the final steps the system will allow you to select format options and finally produces a pdf order form which you must print, sign and fax to us to establish the order. [Orders are only established on receiving a signed fax - so feel free to play with the wizard without fear of creating an order in error.]   (We have regular interval intradaily data as well as tick by tick data - so make the correct data frequency selection in step 1.)

Data is delivered in 3 working days (for credit card payments) and within 2 days after receiving the wire transfer - for payments by wire.

For instruments not covered by the Pricing Wizard try the Data Catalogue to check availability and/or contact us for pricing with information on frequency and field requirements.

† for forex and selected instruments   ‡ Client Papers, Olsen published papers and Olsen working papers based on our data