How do I load market prices into the Quote Store?

You can load a quote representing a stock market price for a particular instrument on a given day, for example $287.46 for APPL on 6 May 2026.

Note the following:

Market prices are required items of market data when valuing most supported instruments.
Choices you make when uploading market data impact the composition of the recipe you must create in order to use that data.

Methods

LUSID web app

LUSID API

Luminesce

Call the UpsertQuotes API to load up to 2000 quotes in a single request. You must:

Encapsulate all the quotes in a single scope (namespace) in the URL.
For each quote, specify an ephemeral ID (to track errors in the response).

curl -X POST "https://<your-domain>.lusid.com/api/api/quotes/MyAPPLPrices"
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <your-API-access-token>"
  -H "Content-Type: application/json-patch+json"
  -d '{
  "Quote-0001": {
    "quoteId": {
      "quoteSeriesId": {
        "provider": "Bloomberg",
        "instrumentIdType": "LusidInstrumentId",
        "instrumentId": "LUID_00003D58",
        "quoteType": "Price",
        "field": "mid"
      },
      "effectiveAt": "2026-05-06T00:00:00Z"
    },
    "metricValue": {
      "value": 287.46, "unit": "USD"
    }
  },
  "Quote-0002": {
    "quoteId": {
      "quoteSeriesId": {
        "provider": "Bloomberg",
        "instrumentIdType": "LusidInstrumentId",
        "instrumentId": "LUID_00003D58",
        "quoteType": "Price",
        "field": "mid"
      },
      "effectiveAt": "2026-05-05T00:00:00Z"
    },
    "metricValue": {
      "value": 276.93, "unit": "USD"
    }
  }
}'

Navigate to Data Management > Quotes and click the Create quote button:

Write a Luminesce SQL query using the Lusid.Instrument.Quote.Writer provider and execute it using a tool such as the LUSID web app:

Data fields

This section supplements the API documentation and on-screen help text in the LUSID web app.

Mandatory field or parameter	Allowed values	Must be matched in recipe?
`scope`	Any, for example `MyAPPLPrices`	✅ dataScope field
`provider`	Any valid	✅ supplier field
`field`	Any valid for provider	✅ field field
`instrumentIdType`	Your choice of `LusidInstrumentId`, `Figi`, `RIC`, `QuotePermId`, `Isin`, `Sedol`, `Cusip`, `ClientInternal`	✅ key field, for example `Quote.LusidInstrumentId.LUID_00003D58` or `Quote.RIC.*`
`instrumentId`	Must match a value suitable for the chosen instrument identifier, for example `LUID_00003D58` for `LusidInstrumentId`
`quoteType`	`Price` for a clean price, or `DirtyPrice`	✅ quoteType field
`effectiveAt`	A UTC datetime, or date and cut label	❌ but must be within quoteInterval
`metricValue.value`	The quoted price, for example `287.46`	❌
`metricValue.unit`	The quoted currency, for example `USD`	❌

The following fields are optional:

A priceSource indicating a sub-supplier to the provider, for example Tradeweb or RRPS for Refinitiv DataScope. Match this using the priceSource field in a recipe. Note that if omitted, your recipe must also omit its priceSource field.
A lineage providing additional information.
A scaleFactor to scale down the price, for example a bond price that is expressed as a percentage of par. Note it may be more efficient to scale down at the instrument level instead. More information.

Subsequent updates

You can change the metricValue of an existing quote. Any other update constitutes a new quote in the time series.