# Bid/Ask Price Becoming 0?

**URL:** <https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/bid-ask-price-becoming-0/8205>\
**Category:** Alpaca Market Data\
**Created:** [February 1, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/bid-ask-price-becoming-0/8205 "2022-02-01T02:30:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tswob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Tswob](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Tswob)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/bid-ask-price-becoming-0/8205/1 "2022-02-01T02:30:56Z")

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Why does the API market data pull have a tendency to show Bid/Ask prices as 0? Many others have experienced this. What is the rationale for this? Has this community found a workaround such as by replacing 0 with the last trade data or so?