Current Stock Quote

A current stock quote feed is simply a syndication that functions through a RSS feed. A RSS feed bundles and delivers particular items through the internet that move very rapidly. In broad terms, this is how a stock quote feed works for all venues that are an indication of changes in the stock market. The RSS feed is also able to separate information that is moving faster from the slower information allowing the search to be narrowed down to pertinent retrievable information. With stock exchanges keeping different hours all over the world, RSS stock quote feeds make it possible to have the latest stock information flowing at the quickest possible rate.

Many online brokerage sites offer pricing data from all over the world. Their sources can include major equity exchanges and indexes, foreign exchanges and treasury markets while offering coverage on options, commodities, futures and precious metals. Your needs can be customized in virtually any format with a variety of time intervals that will allow you to get your stock quote feed when you want it.

When signing up for a data feed, make sure to note whether it's a real time feed or delayed data and time your searches accordingly. As for broadcast feeds, these are permanent streaming quotes for securities that you can set up for as many exchanges as your company offers. Since some broadcast feeds can accommodate as many as 200 exchanges, it's a feed intended for applications that can process and store large amounts of data. Make sure to find a version that is compatible with your computer such as Microsoft Windows or some company's offer an IP version which will work with any operating system.

If you are a serious investor, an interactive feed will permit applications to ask for and receive pricing data for symbols and fields you pre-selected. With the applicable software, you will be able to integrate data from the interactive current stock quote feed with a Reuters Market Data System (RMDS).

If you don't have time to manage real time data from a streaming feed, consider finding a company that offers documents containing tick by tick trading data. You can usually get this data on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis from any exchange that company covers. Snapshot data feeds can also be obtained that provide current stock quotes and other stock data from snapshots taken during the day or at the end of the day.