Real-Time Pricing is Now Available

We’ve integrated IEX’s free API in to bring real-time prices and current-day close prices to the snapshot page for US non-OTC stocks & ETFs.
This is our first stage for offering real-time prices; additional integration is planned for other parts of the site where it would be useful.
Head over to the snapshot page to see it in action.

Very nice. Canada is in the works right?

Awesome! I am waiting for the ability to specify intraday price for opening / closing positions in simulations

We won’t have intraday for sims.

Real time prices are very expensive. What IEX is doing is disrupting, but is only for US exchanges for now (lets support them though!)

We’ll use these prices in many places for rebalances, monitoring, watchlists, charts, TRADE to name a few. Stay tuned

Thanks

Understand, no worries. Back to XLQ then :slight_smile:

This is great! Wonderful news. Applause to P123 to keep adding new and useful components!

Please note that your use of the IEX data we display constitutes consent to API Exhibit A.

cool!

thanks guys… good stuff

While the RT data doesn’t work with sims, will it work with screener?

Here’s a potential plan

We’re going to deploy in phases to make sure it’s reliable before we make it available to the engine rules to (by engine rules I mean real-time ratios that can be used for screening or ranking)

So next will be for display only , like your holdings pages or the output of the screen , intraday charts

Then we will use them for TRADE so that limit orders are easier to enter

After that we will use them for calculating better recommendation (# shares based on real time prices rather than previous close)

Then we will use them inside the ratio engine for real time ratios (technical & fundamentals)

Thanks

Marco,

Just wanted to say that I have considered different ways to do “watch lists”—on my own or as new features at P123. I never really pursued this because I was not creative enough and ultimately did not have any ideas that were good enough to recommend.

This is better than a watch list.

Of course, nothing is the final answer to all questions. But this seems to have potential and is a great idea, IMHO.

-Jim

Hi Marco, As part of the first phase you mention, are there plans to include a watchlist with real-time quotes? (ex: list of tickers, company name, last price, current bid-ask spread, high/low)

My old google finance page just died today and I already miss it quite a bit. It was a clean, simple interface where I could see a lot of information at once, and was easy to quickly change tickers by editing a single space delimited text box (I much prefer this input method to so many site’s insistence on mouse-clicking individual boxes to input, edit, or delete each ticker) . I’m searching for a replacement, but it’s surprising to me how bad the user-interfaces of some of the alternatives are. I’m going to put in some time learning what some of my brokers offer, but for someone with several brokers it’s kindof nice to have a decent watchlist that’s independent of the broker.

If anyone has suggestions for something clean, simple and efficient to use as watchlist I’d appreciate tips.

  • I’d prefer not to use Yahoo finance, but haven’t totally written them off yet because much of what I find is no better.
  • As to intraday charts, I like what Fidelity has and have been using it. Their watchlists are clunky imho.
  • I think Interactive Brokers might be good for monitoring watchlists, but I need to put in some time to learn how to use it better. I kindof dislike having to login to IB to view a watchlist though - I’d prefer something good that’s independent.
  • I like Schwab as a broker, and need to study their tools also - but my gut tells me a watchlist independent of a broker is just a more efficient way of setting it up. (edit: The watchlist data layout they have is actually good for my purposes- I think I could use - it’s just the input/editing/arranging aspect that’s rough).

I’m really looking forward seeing this implemented in the “holdings” tab of a live portfolio.

Right now I have to create a watchlist on Yahoo Finance to see how my P123 Live Portfolio is doing today.

If I could do the same thing on P123 it would allow me to ditch Yahoo Finance for this purpose.

Thanks!

Hi @SpacemanJones and @Inovestor,

There are plans and work being done to include the real-time quotes for watchlists and for the holdings tab of a live portfolio. Eventually (hopefully soon) we should have a clean and simple to user interface for everyone to appreciate right here on Portfolio123. Thanks for your patience. Stay tuned!

Quick question to the P123 team:

When querying the IEX API and in order to produce thist daily data historical page (https://www.portfolio123.com/app/stock/prices using the un-adjusted option), can you get directly the un-adjusted prices or do you have to recalculate them?

If yes, what does the un-adjusted query look like for daily historical prices?

I was looking at using it and I need the un-adjusted prices. But the API documentation only seems to mention adjusted prices - which I confirmed by a few tests myself.

many thanks in advance,

Jerome

Marco,
How often are the intraday prices updated?

Jerome:
At the moment, we’re only using IEX API for current price shown on the stock snapshot page. All other price data is powered by Compustat & ICE Data (Interactive Data).

Denny:
We request quote data on-demand as users hit the snapshot page for any given security unless it is fresh in the cache; currently, quotes are invariably considered fresh for only one minute past the time of the cached request.
As for the freshness of the data from IEX, if the snapshot page indicates that the price is an IEX Real-Time Price, the data reflects a very recent trade executed on IEX. If there is no activity over the span of 15 minutes, IEX falls back to SIP (Security Information Processor) 15-minute-delayed data. Regardless of the source, the timestamp indicated with the price is received directly from IEX and, taking into account the security’s liquidity, should be used to judge the freshness of the price.
If, however, you’re refreshing the page and still seeing old data, you may be hitting a known issues where the data backing the page is not refreshed unless the symbol is switched. This is a known area of improvement that hasn’t been a concern until this real-time data feature was introduced. If you would this behavior improved, please indicate so.

Thank you Aaron

Hi, I’m just bumping this to see if a quote watchlist is still being planned? I’ve been using yahoo but they’ve started playing videos every time I check my watchlist or holdings, and I’m beginning to look for something else. I use several different brokers so having a single centralized quotelist, even if delayed, would be nice if still in the works. I can’t speak for others, but it’d be a nice feature for me.