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»Forums Index »Archive (2017 and earlier) »IQFeed Developer Support »OptionChain contains invalid option symbol & no LEAPs from 148 servers
Author Topic: OptionChain contains invalid option symbol & no LEAPs from 148 servers (2 messages, Page 1 of 1)

wmillows
-DTN Evangelist-
Posts: 116
Joined: Jul 14, 2004


Posted: Aug 2, 2007 01:47 AM          Msg. 1 of 2
Since Option Search returns expired contracts, I tried OptionChain lookup. I found two problems:
1) It doesn't return LEAPs, I sent in "OEA,HD,1,4;", no LEAPs returned.
2) It returns invalid option symbols, with LookupClient,

Q to quit
==>9
Symbol: GOOG
Leap (1/0): 1
GGD AB,GGD AD,GGD AF,GGD AH,GGD AJ,GGD AL,GGD AN,GGD AP,GGD AR,GGD AT,GGD HF,GGD HH,GGD HJ
,GGD HL,GGD HN,GGD IB,GGD ID,GGD IF,GGD IH,GGD IJ,GGD IL,GGD IN,GGD IP,GGD IR,GGD IT,GGD L
B,GGD LD,GGD LF,GGD LH,GGD LJ,GGD LL,GGD LN,GGD LT,GOO AA,GOO AB,GOO AC,GOO AD,GOO AE,............

try GOO AA for instance, again, with streamer
wGOO AA
Q,GOO AA,,Not Found,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

DTN_Steve_S
-DTN Guru-
Posts: 2093
Joined: Nov 21, 2005


Posted: Aug 2, 2007 08:26 AM          Msg. 2 of 2
The problem here is that the requests are specifying you want near months and apparently the near months request overrides the leaps request.

The API documentation is also incorrect in this reguard (since it says values of 1-4 with nears).

And to cap off the trifecta, the LookupClient Example app is also bugged in that it does not handle this properly either.

If you send the same request with near months set to zero, you get the leaps.

I will update the documentation for the next release of IQFeed as well as take a look at that example app.
 

 

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