Real-Time, Delayed, and Intraday Stock Prices#
Here we’ll describe the stock and equity market quotes IEX Cloud provides in real-time, at 15-minute delay, and intraday.
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Real-time and 15-minute delayed stock prices on IEX Cloud#
IEX Cloud provides both real-time stock prices and 15-minute delayed stock prices during market trading hours for U.S. stocks and ETFs. You can access this data via the Quote and Intraday Prices endpoints.
Real-time prices are based on all trades that occur on the Investors Exchange (IEX). 15-minute delayed stock prices reflect activity from all U.S. exchanges, and is provided by the Securities Information Processor / Consolidate Tape Association (SIP).
While real-time prices for Nasdaq-listed stocks are available to all users, 15-minute delayed price data for Nasdaq-listed securities requires UTP authorization. Learn more here.
Note that real-time prices available via the IEX Cloud API are different from real-time prices available via direct connection from IEX. Learn more.
Using the Quote and Intraday Prices Endpoints#
While there are several endpoints that provide stock price data on IEX Cloud in various formats, many users primarily use the Quote and Intraday Prices endpoints for current stock price data. Other endpoints that provide price data include Historical Prices, Delayed Quote, OHLC, Previous Day Price, and Price.
Using the Quote Endpoint#
Use the following fields on the Quote endpoint to access real-time stock prices:
latestPrice: The real-time price of a symbol, sourced from Investors Exchange (IEX) stock price data.
In the case of thinly traded securities – or securities traded less frequently – it’s possible that a symbol may not be traded on IEX within the most recent 15 minutes. In this case, since the IEX real-time price would be older than the 15-minute delayed SIP data, IEX Cloud will provide 15-minute delayed SIP data in this field.
Outside of trading hours, this field will provide the last available closing price. For details on accessing extended hours prices, refer to the bottom of this article.
latestSource: The source used to provide the price for the latestPrice field.
iexRealtimePrice: The real-time price for a stock, using the last trade on IEX.
delayedPrice: The 15-minute delayed price using SIP data. For Nasdaq-listed securities, this field and other delayed fields will be returned as null without UTP authorization and a paid Apperate plan.
Additional information is provided via this endpoint. See a full list of Quote endpoint fields at the Quote endpoint page.
Using Intraday Prices Endpoint#
You may also use the following fields on the Intraday Prices endpoint for the current trading day’s minute-by-minute price data:
open: IEX real-time data. First price during a given minute.
close: IEX real-time data. Last price during a given minute.
high: IEX real-time data. Highest price during the minute on IEX.
low: IEX real-time data. Lowest price during the minute on IEX.
The average, volume, numberOfTrades, and notional fields are also all sourced from trades on the Investor’s Exchange. For thinly traded securities, it is possible there will be no trades in a given minute on the Investors Exchange, in which case those properties would be null.
The properties that begin with “market” are all based off 15-minute delayed market-wide prices from the SIP. During a trading day, these prices will populate with a 15-minute delay. For example, during a trading day at 10:00 a.m., you would see Investors Exchange real-time prices immediately for the 10:00 a.m. minute (assuming there are trades for that security on IEX in that minute). However, the market-wide properties for minutes 9:45 – 10:00 a.m. will be null. At 10:01 a.m., the 9:45 a.m. market-wide prices will be available, at 10:02 a.m., the 9:46 a.m. market-wide prices will be available, etc.
For a complete list of the endpoint fields, please see the Intraday Prices endpoint page.
OTC Stocks, ADRs, and Extended Market Hours Data#
OTC stock 15-minute delayed prices are available through require a separate license agreement with OTC. Please reach out to support at support@iexcloud.io for more information.
ADRs listed in the U.S. are supported on IEX Cloud and have price data available in the same way as regular stock symbols.
Prices outside of market hours can be retrieved from the extendedPrice field from the Quote endpoint. These prices are 15-minute delayed, and cover the hours 4:00 a.m. E.T. – 9:30 a.m. E.T. and 4:00 p.m. E.T – 8:00 p.m. E.T. You can see a full list of data points returned for extended hours data in the Quote endpoint page.