Market Data Feeds Real-Time

Real-time market data integration is the practice of consuming live financial data from exchanges, normalizing it, and distributing it to trading systems, analytics platforms, and monitoring dashboards. Sources: stock exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ), crypto exchanges (Binance, Coinbase), forex brokers, commodity exchanges. Data: bid/ask prices, trade executions, order book snapshots, volumes. The challenge: handling multiple data formats (FIX, WebSocket, REST), ensuring message ordering, handling outages, and minimizing latency. A 10ms delay in data can mean millions of dollars in lost opportunities for high-frequency traders.