Markets and data
Know the market before you start a report
This page answers a practical question: which listings can be researched, how to enter them, and where the data stops. Coverage is driven by an admin exchange whitelist, normalized listing identity, and configured vendors—not by a promise of global or real-time markets.
- Seeded markets
- US · HK · CN · JP · TW
- Exchange seeds
- 10 venues
- Last verified
- July 29, 2026
Default analysis exchange seeds
These ten venues are the first-party analysis seeds. A venue only becomes researchable after it is enabled in the deployment whitelist.
Coverage matrix
Markets, venues, and known limits
Use this table to check whether your listing belongs to a seeded market and what constraints usually apply. Status means “seeded when enabled,” not “guaranteed complete vendor coverage for every field.”
| Market | Venues | Listing input | Status | Session TZ | Known limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | NASDAQNYSEAMEXOTC | Ticker or exchange-qualified symbol | Seeded when enabled | America/New_York | OTC often has thinner fundamentals and news. Quotes can be delayed. |
| Hong Kong | HKEX | Numeric symbol with exchange qualifier | Seeded when enabled | Asia/Hong_Kong | Bare numbers are ambiguous. Prefer 0700.HK or HKEX:700. |
| China A-shares | SSESZSE | Exchange-qualified A-share code | Seeded when enabled | Asia/Shanghai | SSE and SZSE only. Distinguish .SS / .SZ before routing. |
| Japan | TSE | Exchange-qualified TSE code | Seeded when enabled | Asia/Tokyo | Coverage depth depends on configured vendors for the job. |
| Taiwan | TWSETPEX | Exchange-qualified TWSE / TPEX code | Seeded when enabled | Asia/Taipei | Board choice matters. Confirm TWSE vs TPEX before comparing reports. |
How to enter a listing
Preferred input forms by market
Enter a public listing identity—company symbol plus exchange—not a provider-internal code. The product normalizes the listing first, then routes vendors.
United States
US ticker or exchange:symbol
Plain tickers like AAPL usually resolve on major US boards. Add the exchange when the same letters could collide.
AAPLNASDAQ:AAPLNYSE:IBMHong Kong
Always qualify Hong Kong numbers
Use a dotted or exchange-prefixed form. Do not treat a bare 700 as a complete identity.
0700.HKHKEX:700China A-shares
Keep the board in the symbol
Shanghai and Shenzhen codes can look alike as six digits. The .SS / .SZ or SSE: / SZSE: qualifier removes the ambiguity.
600519.SS000001.SZSSE:600519Japan
Tokyo listings need the exchange
Prefer 7203.T or TSE:7203 so routing does not guess the venue.
7203.TTSE:7203Taiwan
Qualify Taiwan board codes
Use 2330.TW or TWSE:2330. Confirm whether the listing is TWSE or TPEX before starting.
2330.TWTWSE:2330Evidence limits
Time and data boundaries
A report is only as trustworthy as the evidence window. These four rules stay visible across research jobs and published reports.
Analysis date is part of the claim
Every job records the requested analysis date. Prices, filings, and news are interpreted against that date—not against whatever happens to be newest when you open the report later.
No look-ahead in historical analysis
Historical runs must not use later prices, filings, or news as if they were already known. When a source cannot be safely bounded, the field stays unavailable instead of being invented.
Quotes show as-of time
Desk quotes and report snapshots include source and as-of time. They may be delayed. Delayed does not mean live market data, and live is not promised on this site.
Missing data stays missing
If a vendor fails or a field is empty, the report marks the gap. Modules that did not run stay unavailable. Silence is preferred over filler.
Instrument identity
Resolve the listing before the debate
Research starts only after ticker, exchange, and asset identity are normalized. Provider formats are an implementation detail after that public identity is fixed.
Read the ticker and exchange guide→Identity checklist
- Company name, ticker, exchange, and asset type belong together.
- The same letters can mean different instruments across venues.
- Provider-internal codes are not the public listing identity.
- Compare reports only after the identity fields match as a unit.
What this page does not claim
Outside the current research seed
Clear exclusions prevent the coverage table from being read as a marketing promise.
- No promise of global market coverage or every exchange in the catalog.
- No promise of real-time or zero-latency quotes.
- Crypto venues are not part of the default equity analysis seed set.
- No brokerage connection, order routing, or account funding.
- Upstream TradingAgents experiments are not automatically enabled here.
Practical use
Before you start research
A short verification path reduces false starts caused by the wrong board, closed exchange, or mismatched date.
- 01Confirm the company, ticker, exchange, and share class you intend to study.
- 02Enter an exchange-qualified form when the market uses numeric codes or shared tickers.
- 03Check that the venue appears in the enabled exchange set for this deployment.
- 04Set the analysis date you want the evidence bounded to—not only today’s date by habit.
- 05If a quote or module is missing, treat that gap as part of the result, not as noise to ignore.
Keep reading the boundaries
These pages explain how evidence dates, research roles, and published reports fit together.