# Data block guide

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\*\**Price Data is a special block that comes into the data category, however, does not accept any input nor it throws any output.*\
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\&#xNAN;*Price Data can be considered as the starting point of the strategy that takes into account the price when back test or forward test is run.*\
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\&#xNAN;*If you'd like to use real time price in your strategy then consider using the Current Price Block.*

*\*\*Action block does not give any output to the users. Instead, when running in background, it instructs our services when to place an order with other meta-data (stop loss, take profit)*