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IQFeed API Questions » Option Chain Response missing "LC" Jul 20, 2023 03:29 AM (Total replies: 2)

Thanks for the clarification. Indeed, I'm using 6.1 so I'll have to keep this in mind for the next upgrade. Thanks again.

Data Questions » Heads Up Daily bars on 5 June 2023 Jun 12, 2023 10:01 AM (Total replies: 4)

Thanks for taking care of that!

Data Questions » Heads Up Daily bars on 5 June 2023 Jun 5, 2023 05:40 PM (Total replies: 4)

Daily data is incorrect for stocks whose High or Low price for the day was hit in the first few minutes of the session.

Examples (just 2 of hundreds) -

RCL - Low was 85.86, but the Daily bar Low is 86.00
RE - High was 346.58, but the Daily bar High is 346.26

IQFeed API Questions » Option Chain Response missing "LC" May 23, 2023 06:17 AM (Total replies: 2)

The doc here: http://www.iqfeed.net/dev/api/docs/OptionChainsviaTCPIP.cfm indicates that the response to any of the requests for option chains will have "a field containing the letters LC". We expect to see LC as the first field unless a RequestID is specified, and in that case LC would be the second token.

Nonetheless in response to the request, LC is nowhere to be found in the response.
CEO,CSCO,pc,FGHJKMNQUVXZ,,,,,4,1

Response...
6,CSCO2302F30,CSCO2302F35,CSCO2302F36,CSCO2302F37,CSCO2302F38,...

I don't care if LC is there or not, but I just want to know that it will never be there. Will it?

New IQFeed Forum » 78-Minute Bar alignment Dec 16, 2022 08:02 AM (Total replies: 5)

Any chance that these issues will be fixed?
Edited by Roberts on Dec 16, 2022 at 08:02 AM

New IQFeed Forum » 78-Minute Bar alignment Dec 14, 2022 02:41 AM (Total replies: 5)

Finally, another image attached highlighting that the first 1048 bar occasionally is wrong, completely missing the first 78 minutes of data and instead appears to insert data for the 1-min of premarket trading prior to 0930. The data shown were part of the response to this request:

HIT,ABBV,4680,20211003 000000,20221216 000000,,093000,160000,1,7,,s,0

New IQFeed Forum » 78-Minute Bar alignment Dec 14, 2022 01:07 AM (Total replies: 5)

ABBV 78 Minute bars returned yesterday (12/13/2022) OHLCV
12/13/2022 10:48 166.92 167.16 165.62 166.06 417761
12/13/2022 12:06 166.05 166.06 164.71 164.985 394991
12/13/2022 13:24 164.985 165.55 164.69 165.085 253186
12/13/2022 14:42 165.09 165.94 164.83 164.86 323191
12/13/2022 16:00 164.89 165.65 164.67 164.92 644521

ABBV 78 Minute bars returned today (12/14/2022) OHLCV
12/13/2022 10:48 166.95 167.5 165.76 166.41 542785
12/13/2022 12:06 166.39 166.39 164.75 165.31 445391
12/13/2022 13:24 165.29 165.37 164.69 165.365 281420
12/13/2022 14:42 165.39 165.62 164.9 165.54 275937
12/13/2022 16:00 165.5491 165.94 164.67 164.92 786909

It's only 2AM EST, but the data returned for the same request has changed (and is now correct).

New IQFeed Forum » 78-Minute Bar alignment Dec 13, 2022 03:47 PM (Total replies: 5)

For that request, is it misleading that IQFeed timestamps the bars in the way that [appears to] use a 0930 start? If the (ending) timestamp of the 78-minute bar is 10:48, then that implies that it's the 78-minutes of data from 0930 to 1048 - yet that is not the case (today).

I had a hunch that paid off. I rescaled IQFeed 1-minute data and compared the result to the 78-minute bars returned from IQFeed. As it turns out, using the request above, IQFeed uses the 0930 filter time as a start reference. The problem is that it doesn't do that for the current day!

See the attached image that makes this comparison. Except for occasional - but significant - differences on [usually] the 1048 bar, the bars are identical prior to "today". My guess is that when I request the ABBV 78 minute bars tomorrow, they'll be different than they are today. That's not good.

New IQFeed Forum » 78-Minute Bar alignment Dec 13, 2022 01:01 PM (Total replies: 5)

When requesting odd-intervals, like 13 or 78 minute bars (both of which divide evenly into a 390-minute day), what is the correct way to identify the starting time for the data compression?

For example, if you start at midnight, 78 minute bar end-of-bar timestamps for bars that contain data for the U.S. market regular session would be (in bold):
01:18
02:36
03:54
05:12
06:30
07:48
09:06
10:24
11:42
13:00
14:18
15:36
16:54

18:12
19:30

However, I need bar data aligned with the 09:30 market open whose end-of-bar times are:
10:48:00
12:06:00
13:24:00
14:42:00
16:00:00

Specifying 0930 and 1600 for the HIT filter times returns bars with the correct timestamps. e.g.,
HIT,ABBV,4680,20221213 000000,20221215 000000,,093000,160000,1,3,,s,0
20221213 10:48 166.92 167.16 165.62 166.06 417,761
20221213 12:06 166.05 166.06 164.71 164.99 394,991

HOWEVER, inspecting the 1-minute data (always referring to end-of-bar timestamps), the OPEN for ABBV today's 09:31 bar was 166.95 - not 166.92 as indicated in the 78-minute bar data.

More strikingly, the 1-min bar close at 10:48 is 166.41 - not 166.06. Note that the bar ending at 10:17 closed at 166.06 - the only 1 minute bar to close at that price before 10:48.

What's going on with this data compression?
What's IQFeed's guidance on how to do this correctly?

New IQFeed Forum » missing split event? Apr 23, 2021 01:37 PM (Total replies: 24)

Thanks.

Unfortunately, the data guys got the ex-date wrong. It's today 04/23/2021, not 04/22/2021. Can you get them to adjust that, please?

F,VXX,12,,58583000,45.0300,9.7300,21.7600,9.7300,0.0000,,,,,,,,,IPATH SER B S&P 500 VIX SHORT-TERM FUTURES ETN,VXX1,,1.00,,11570.0,,,,101585,4.00 04/22/2021,,14,4,,52.88,1,18,06/12/2020,04/16/2021,01/29/2021,04/16/2021,16.7900,,,,,0,,,,,,USD,,,,,BBG00JQ5JWB5,3,

New IQFeed Forum » missing split event? Apr 23, 2021 12:48 PM (Total replies: 24)

Update:
Disregard the split in 2017. That one was for the previous VXX series, which was delisted.

New IQFeed Forum » missing split event? Apr 23, 2021 12:46 PM (Total replies: 24)

I'm looking at both! You should know me by now ;)

I understand that only Daily is adjusted by IQFeed. We use the Fundamental message to adjust our intraday data too.

New IQFeed Forum » missing split event? Apr 23, 2021 12:26 PM (Total replies: 24)

Hi again!
VXX reverse split 1:4 today, 04/23/2021

And, the Fundamental string isn't returned the penultimate split either - 1:4 on 08/23/2017:

F,VXX,12,,58583000,45.0300,9.7300,21.7600,9.7300,0.0000,,,,,,,,,IPATH SER B S&P 500 VIX SHORT-TERM FUTURES ETN,VXX1,,1.00,,11570.0,,,,101585,,,14,4,,52.88,1,18,06/12/2020,04/16/2021,01/29/2021,04/16/2021,16.7900,,,,,0,,,,,,USD,,,,,BBG00JQ5JWB5,3,

Data Questions » What's Different for Index (VIX.XO) Level 1? Apr 22, 2021 11:24 AM (Total replies: 2)

A customer is having trouble with streaming data for Indices, like VIX.XO and VIX3M.XO. From the description, there appear to be no updates, which are expected at least every 15 seconds for these instruments.

Is it possible that these are updated only as a "P" Summary message? (Our Dev feed doesn't have perms for these indices.)

New IQFeed Forum » missing split event? Apr 15, 2021 08:48 AM (Total replies: 24)

Yes! Getting it now, thanks.

New IQFeed Forum » missing split event? Apr 15, 2021 04:55 AM (Total replies: 24)

FNGU is still missing its recent 10:1 split event on 2/12/2021. Can you add that to the Fundamental message, please?

(The Daily data are adjusted, but we need that Split event to adjust the intraday properly.)
Edited by Roberts on Apr 15, 2021 at 04:56 AM
Edited by Roberts on Apr 15, 2021 at 04:56 AM

Data Questions » Form T Intraday Filter Feb 23, 2021 03:07 AM (Total replies: 5)

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Thanks for spamming my topic with your completely unrelated opinion.

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IQFeed 3rd Party Software Support » Bar Watch Help Dec 2, 2020 07:46 AM (Total replies: 7)

If it's turned on, you'll get an incomplete BU message whenever a new tick has a trade in it.

.. but you'll get that message only after the Update Interval. Sure, we can put that at 1 second and have at most a 1 second delay, which is acceptable, but it certainly complicates the adapter. Instead of just passing along the final result when it arrives, we'll have store the last BU message, and, if the BC message doesn't come in before 1 second after the interval, we use the last BU data, and, later have to ignore the next BC message. Not joy, but it is what it is.

IQFeed 3rd Party Software Support » Bar Watch Help Dec 2, 2020 02:49 AM (Total replies: 7)

Thanks for the link. Now I understand BU much better, because that was unclear too. (If I had requested 15 second updates, I was expecting updates at :00, :15, :30 and :45 seconds every minute, which is not how that works either.)

Quoting Tim Walter from your first link, "The answer, due to the impossibility of syncing all clocks involved and the random latencies between connections, was to say that a bar complete message is only sent when a new message, with a time that is outside of the current bar, is received. So that is why BC messages are not timely."

It's understandable that DTN wants the data to match perfectly, but it sure doesn't seem like a good design decision based on the tradeoffs that require the consumer to use a work-around that is even less perfect and that still doesn't provide a timely bar without building one ourselves using updates. IQFeed already provides a TimeMessage that we use as a heartbeat to "close" intervals precisely on time so that strategies can be executed. We've used this design for 20 years in streaming charts and sure seems like an easy solution to implement for a "BC" message too. If the 99% of the user base expects this, what's the problem?

Our solution may be to toss the whole concept and simply subscribe to hundreds of streams instead. That's worse for the user's cpu and has gotta be worse for the DTN backend.

IQFeed 3rd Party Software Support » Bar Watch Help Dec 1, 2020 01:33 PM (Total replies: 7)

I actually think I see what's happening. TTD doesn't print it's complete interval until a full lot trade occurs in the next interval. There's got to be a way around that, right?


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