# Market Lab


- **Getting Started**
- [Introduction](/): Market Lab is a terminal-native runtime for market data, research, scripting, backtesting, and execution.
- [Quickstart](/getting-started): Authenticate providers, inspect market data, run a backtest, and preview execution.
- [Installation](/installation): Install Market Lab and configure provider credentials securely.
- [Configuration](/configuration): Reuse Market Lab command settings with marketlab.toml.
- [Concepts](/concepts): Understand the core Market Lab model before using individual commands.
- [Examples](/examples): Real command examples for sources, studies, and strategies.

- **Trading & Execution**
- [Execution](/execution): Plan, simulate, submit, and monitor BULK trades through Market Lab.
- Strategies
  - [Strategies](/strategies): Use Market Lab's native execution strategies as supervised jobs.
  - [TWAP](/strategies/twap): Execute a parent order through time-weighted child orders on BULK.

- **Scripting**
- Scripting
  - [Scripting](/scripting): Write local JavaScript scripts for Market Lab.
  - [Script API Reference](/scripting/api-reference): Reference for the script manifest, hooks, input, history, studies, and execution functions.
  - [Scripts](/scripting/scripts): Write, backtest, and deploy Market Lab scripts in JavaScript.
  - [Source History](/scripting/history): Read retained source records in live Market Lab scripts and backtests.
  - [Script Execution](/scripting/execution): Simulate and execute strategy scripts with ctx.trade, ctx.cancel, and onExecution.
  - Sources
    - [Sources](/scripting/sources): Market data sources and exact runtime selectors for Market Lab scripts.
    - [Candles](/scripting/sources/candles): Live trade-derived and historical candle behavior for Market Lab scripts.
    - [Orderbook](/scripting/sources/orderbook): Orderbook source configuration for Market Lab scripts.
    - [VD](/scripting/sources/vd): Volume delta source configuration for Market Lab scripts.
    - [Open Interest](/scripting/sources/oi): Open interest source configuration for Market Lab scripts.
    - [Volumes](/scripting/sources/volumes): Volume source configuration for Market Lab scripts.
  - [Built-In Functions](/scripting/built-ins): Market Lab helper functions exposed to JavaScript scripts.
  - Data Types
    - [Data Types](/scripting/data-types): Data shapes available inside Market Lab scripts.
    - [Candles](/scripting/data-types/candles): Normalized candle shape available to Market Lab scripts.
    - [Orderbook](/scripting/data-types/orderbook): Normalized orderbook snapshots for Market Lab scripts.
    - [VD](/scripting/data-types/vd): Normalized volume-delta records for Market Lab scripts.
    - [Open Interest](/scripting/data-types/oi): Normalized open interest records for Market Lab scripts.
    - [Volumes](/scripting/data-types/volumes): Normalized volume records for Market Lab scripts.

- **Providers**
- [MMT Market Data](/providers-mmt): Important behavior and constraints when using Market Lab with the MMT market-data provider.
- [BULK Provider](/providers-bulk): Use BULK market data, market rules, agent credentials, and live order execution through Market Lab.

- **Reference**
- [CLI Reference](/cli-reference): High-level command map for the current Market Lab CLI surface.
- [JSON Output](/json-output): Compact machine output, verbose mode, and stream-friendly JSONL behavior.
- [v0.0.5](/changelog): Native BULK execution, detached runtimes, multi-exchange scripting, execution-aware backtesting, and TWAP.