# Price feed

> The stream of prices a trading platform shows and fills against. Even a simulated account needs one.

**Source:** https://proptechpal.com/glossary/price-feed  
**Generated:** 2026-09-24  
**Publisher:** Prop Tech Pal — independent prop firm technology comparison

_Disclosure grades measure what a vendor publishes, never product quality. A vendor publishing a weak SLA scores better than one publishing none._

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Also called: market data feed, data feed

## Why it matters

For forex and CFDs it usually comes with the platform; for futures it is licensed from the exchange through a data provider, often per user.

## Where it applies

- [Market data feeds for prop firms](https://proptechpal.com/categories/data-feeds)

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