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Steel Data for Investors & Quant Researchers
Steel data for investors: 15 datasets on one shelf. Every one delivered as API, files, or warehouse rows.
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API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Why steel rewards evidence-first investors
Datadory qualifies 15 steel datasets for investors and quant researchers, and 10 clear the relevance-2 bar this pairing demands. The set averages 7.67 on Datadory's quality rubric against a catalog-wide mean of 7.81 out of 10, and 6 of the 15 score a 9.
The 15 best steel datasets for investors and quants, ranked
Ranking is mechanical: relevance tier to investing and quant workflows first, Datadory's quality score second.
Every entry above carries full formats, licensing and update notes on its steel data hub listing.
Which steel signals are primary source and which are vendor commentary?
These carry documented definitions and stated revision practice - the properties a factor wants underneath it.
Seven are association or intergovernmental publishers: AISI, worldsteel's monthly release and Statistical Yearbook, EUROFER, JISF, WV Stahl and the IEA. Their methodologies are documented but their terms vary sharply - JISF's clause 7 permits commercial reuse with credit, while worldsteel's terms forbid bulk republication.
What sample periods and survivorship caveats should you price in?
The longest histories here are unusually long: USGS Data Series 140 reaches back to 1900 and Eurostat's sts_inpr_m production index starts in January 1953.
Revision risk concentrates where you would expect it. EUROFER's crude steel page carried an April 2022 update stamp at review, so verify freshness before it enters a live factor. Survivorship bias is the least of your worries - 6 of these 15 sources are government publications rather than curated vendor panels. Cross-persona context lives in the all investors-quants resources index.
Straight answers
Where can I find a point-in-time fundamentals database for steel?
Nothing here is a point-in-time fundamentals database. The PIT behaviour comes from feeds you timestamp yourself: weekly AISI and SIMA prints, daily SteelMint assessments and monthly worldsteel output.
How do quants use steel data?
Mostly as capacity and trade factors. SteelMint and SteelBenchmarker prices support spread work, while IEA scenarios suit long-horizon ESG tilts.
Rows before rollout
Sample rows from any shelf entry — the field dictionary and coverage notes ride along. If the shelf misses what you need, say so; sourcing requests are half our job.
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