# Market Data Feed

**URL:** <https://community.tradovate.com/t/market-data-feed/12822>\
**Category:** API Developers\
**Created:** [September 14, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.tradovate.com/t/market-data-feed/12822 "2026-09-14T20:19:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gregbul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9dc877/32.png) [@Gregbul](https://community.tradovate.com/u/Gregbul)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.tradovate.com/t/market-data-feed/12822/1 "2026-09-14T20:19:03Z")

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I’m in the process of developing an external application that can send, modify, and manage orders through the Tradovate API. I also want the application to retrieve account information, including account balance, account status, and current P&L for each position, including both open positions and positions that have been closed during the trading day.

I already have much of this functionality working. The issue I’m running into is with real-time P&L updates. The account and position information returned through the Tradovate API does not appear to include the real-time market pricing needed to continuously calculate unrealized P&L.

As I understand it, the application needs access to a real-time market data feed in addition to the Tradovate API in order to obtain current prices and continuously update the P&L for open positions. That real-time market data does not appear to be included automatically with the API connection.

Can anybody here tell me how you are getting real time feeds for CME futures for a reasonable price?

Thanks