Short answer
Two sources. Crypto comes from public exchange endpoints that cost nothing, so it works signed out. Stocks, ETFs, forex and metals come from a paid data provider ORIN pays for, and that allowance is shared by every user — which is why those markets need a free account.
Steps
- 1Crypto — nothing requiredType any USD pair. Public exchange feeds serve it with no account, no key and no limit from us.
- 2Stocks, ETFs, forex, metals — sign inCreate a free account. There is no key to obtain and no card to enter; the account exists so the shared data allowance can be attributed to someone.
- 3If a read is queuedThe allowance refills on a fixed schedule. When it is momentarily spent ORIN shows a countdown rather than an error, and serves the most recent cached bars where it can.
Worth knowing
- You never supply an API key. ORIN previously accepted one; it now provides the data itself, which is what allows a single fetch to serve every user looking at the same chart.
- Because the allowance is shared, a symbol another trader just analysed is usually already cached — the same chart is fetched once, not once per person.
- Prices are for analysis only. They may differ from your broker’s and are never an executable quote.
Related
How to analyse your first chart
Go to the Analyze screen, type a symbol and press Enter. Crypto works signed out with no account at all. Stocks, ETFs and forex run on our own market data, which is metered, so those need a free account — no key and no card.
A symbol will not resolve
Check three things in order: whether the market needs a data key, whether the symbol uses a different convention (GOLD vs XAUUSD), and whether the instrument is inside covered universe.