Do you offer free real time quotes via the API?

A paid market data subscription is typically required to receive real time (live) market data via the API offerings. Once subscribed to the appropriate package, real time data is available via the TWS API in the following ways:

• Top of Book (Level 1) Streaming Data…

When working with IBKR's API offerings, most instruments will require a Level 1 (Top of Book) market data subscription in order to receive real-time data. The exceptions to this are Forex and Cryptocurrency data, which do not require additional subscriptions. While IBKR allows for certain free on-platform data, the API is considered off-platform. Exchanges maintain different licensing requirements and agreements for off-platform market data viewing…

IBKR maintains a Real Time Data server which allows users to request market data quotes from TWS using Microsoft Excel. For information on accessing the server, please refer to the documentation…

You can practice book trading with the BookTrader tool of TWS in a demo or paper trading account.

An active subscription to a Level 2 data package to see market depth quotes will be required to use this tool; however, as we provide free real time quotes on Forex in most countries, you can practice with a Forex pair (ex. EUR.USD) if you are not subscribed to real time quotes…