Argus Market Activities API
Overview
Argus Market Activities provides commodity market participants with a view of trade information to benchmark market activity and support market analysis. Argus enhances market visibility and liquidity analysis by centralising high-quality deal data and, where available, bids and offers. The service covers markets including crude, refined oil products, biofuels, LPG and marine fuels.
Our Market Activities historical data feeds into end-user systems to enable trend analysis and compliance tools that help risk management teams feel more secure and in control, reducing manual processes and enabling faster decision-making. The service provides analysts, risk and commercial teams with transparency and supports an automated data-entry to improve workflow efficiency.
Market activity data is accessed via an API. The data is structured and standardised so it plugs directly into your systems to automate workflows and enhance decision making.
Our Market Activities API delivers data on trades (and where available, bids and offers) across a variety of markets. Data is reported by Argus and includes details of prices, products, delivery requirements and, where appropriate, the organisations involved. A standardised schema is used to describe the activity across different markets. Activity data from the Argus Open Markets® (AOM®) platform is uploaded during market open hours and all other data is uploaded daily.
At a glance
- Benchmark activity with high-quality deal data
- Analyse liquidity with consolidated same-day and historical data
- Examine historical datasets for trend analysis and compliance
- Reduce manual work through automated data flows
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Key features
Programmatic access
Access to trades (and where available, bids and offers) across Argus markets.
AOM® data
Includes data directly from the AOM® platform via API
Data schema
Standardised data schema across all markets for consistent ingestion.
Timely delivery
Near real‑time updates during market open hours from the AOM® platform.
Deal details
Detailed order-level attributes including prices, delivery requirements and organisations involved (where appropriate).
Data integration
Structured commercial trade data designed for greater integration into in-house analytical and operational systems.
How Argus assesses markets
- Comprehensive market coverage
Global network and deep expertise deliver a complete, real-time view of market dynamics.
- Holistic and accurate pricing
All-day price collection ensures assessments reflect true market conditions.
- Insightful market commentaries
Analysis explains price drivers, trends, and market context beyond raw data.
- Balanced market views
Diverse participant input creates neutral, well-rounded market assessments.
- Trusted expertise
Clients engage with the same sector experts for continuity and trust.
Who uses this service
Analysts
- Understand market moves and sentiment with sharper context across related markets and speed up integration by reducing data cleaning overhead.
- Eliminate fragmented sources and see the relevant activity in one place for clearer decision‑making.
Risk management and compliance
- Strengthen trend analysis, defend decisions, and support risk and compliance workflows.
- Access deep historical data (2018 to present day) that feeds into trend analysis, supporting risk and compliance workflows.
Commercial teams
- Build a more accurate picture of market cycles for planning, hedging, and opportunity identification.
- Understand market moves and sentiment with sharper context across related markets
System integrators
- Free up team capacity and accelerate reporting, reconciliation, and validation workflows with API data use.
- Speed up integration and reduce data cleaning overhead.