# Real Time Market Data Into Ignition Tags

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/real-time-market-data-into-ignition-tags/60496>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [June 8, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/real-time-market-data-into-ignition-tags/60496 "2022-06-08T15:28:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Al\_Doucet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/al_doucet/32/35419_2.png) [@Al\_Doucet](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Al_Doucet)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/real-time-market-data-into-ignition-tags/60496/1 "2022-06-08T15:28:19Z")

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Hello Inductive community,

My team and I are trying to bring to life a custom dashboard for our clients. One of the widgets we want to incorporate is “Real Time Stock Market Data”. We want to bring individual commodity prices in as Tags, so we can calculate Oil and Gas production in $$$.

We are trying to find the best means to accomplish this. Has anybody successfully done something similar?

What is the best method to bring this type of data into Ignition. Is an API required or is there an alternative method?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/real-time-market-data-into-ignition-tags/60496/2 "2022-06-08T17:29:06Z")

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I think your best bet would be calling an online stock API using Ignition’s [system.net](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/system.net) functions, specifically [system.net.httpClient()](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/system.net.httpClient)