Why Stock Quotes Are Delayed 15 Minutes
Why are stock quotes delayed 15 minutes? How exchange data licensing sets the rule, and what a quarter hour of staleness actually costs on real prices.
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Why are stock quotes delayed 15 minutes? How exchange data licensing sets the rule, and what a quarter hour of staleness actually costs on real prices.
The NBBO is the national best bid and offer, the one consolidated stock quote your broker must match or beat. See how fast it updates, from real tick data.
A locked market quotes the bid equal to the ask; a crossed market quotes the bid above it. See why Reg NMS bans both and how often each hits the tape.
How big is the options quote feed? We count one full day of OPRA-scale NBBO updates in our warehouse and measure it against the entire stock quote tape.
Learn what a bid-ask spread is, how to calculate it, and what it costs per trade, with real spreads measured from tick-level quote data on US stocks.