DTN IQFeed, DTN.IQ, DTN ProphetX Support Forums

Join the 80,000 other DTN customers who enjoy the fastest, most reliable data available. There is no better value than DTN!

(Move your cursor to this area to pause scrolling)

"I would just like to say that IQFeed version 4 is running very well and I am very happy with its performance. I would also like to extend a big thanks for the fast and efficient help that I always receive. My questions and concerns are always addressed promptly. Way to go!" - Comment from Josh in CO.

"I cannot believe what a difference it makes trading with ProphetX!" - Comment from Bruce in Los Angeles

"With HUGE volume on AAPL and RIMM for 2 days, everyone in a trading room was whining about freezes, crashes and lag with *******, RealTick, TS and Cyber. InvestorRT with IQFeed was rock solid. I mean SOLID!" - Comment from Public IRC Chat

"I've been using Neoticker RT with IQFeed for two months, and I'm very happy with both of the products (I've had IQFeed for two years with very few complaints). The service from both companies is exceptional." - Comment from Public Forum

"Thanks for all of your help. Great customer service deserves to be recognized which one the reasons I've been a customer of DTN for over 10 years!" - Comment from Stuart

"Interactive Brokers tick data was inconsistent, so I have switched to using DTN exclusively. It is great to no longer have to worry about my datafeed all day long." - Comment from Philippe

"DTN has never given me problems. It is incredibly stable. In fact I've occasionally lost the data feed from Interactive Brokers, but still been able to trade because I'm getting good data from DTN." - Comment from Leighton

"Its working FABULOUSLY for me!! Holy cow...there has been so much I've been missing lately, and with this feed and Linnsoft software...I'm in the game now." - Comment from Chris R.

"I'm very glad I switched to IQFeed. It's working perfectly with no lag, even during fast market conditions." - Comment from Andy via Email

"I will tell others who want to go into trading that DTN ProphetX is an invaluable tool, I don't think anyone can trade without it..." - Comment from Luther

Home

Recent Posts

Information on DTN's Industries:
DTN Oil & Gas | DTN Trading | DTN Agriculture | DTN Weather

DTN.IQ/IQFeed on Twitter
DTN News and Analysis on Twitter

»Forums Index »Archive (2017 and earlier) »Data and Content Support »Prior day's closing price (actual vs. price adjusted for dividends)

Author	Topic: Prior day's closing price (actual vs. price adjusted for dividends) (2 messages, Page 1 of 1)
mgraczyk -Interested User- Posts: 1 Joined: Jan 20, 2005	Posted: Jan 20, 2005 12:10 PM Msg. 1 of 2 This is in re: DTN.IQ. When you get the "Close" price using SnapQuote or use the "Close" field in Excel using DDE (eg, =IQLINK\|MSFT!Close), the price given is actually the prior trading day's closing price adjusted for dividends if any. This "closing" price, however, is different than the "Close" price noted in the Time and Sales tool when it is configured to report daily prices. For example today the symbol PMN went ex-dividend and the dividend amount was 0.0493. Snap Quote reports yesterday's closing price as $11.80 but Time and Sales reports yesterday's closing price as $11.85 (yesterday's actual closing price was $11.85, not $11.80). DTN customer support just confirmed that the data feed (ie, the data provided in Snap Quote and via DDE) do indeed reflect the prior trading day's closing price adjusted for dividends (and that these data are what are reported by the exchanges as the prior day's closing price and are not adjusted by DTN). DTN customer support further explained that the Time and Sales data reported are delivered by DTN servers based on historical data that are not adjusted for dividends (because these prices are written to the DTN database before the exhcanges deliver the adjusted prices). So here is the question... Is there a way to get via Snap Quote and DDE both the prior trading day's actual closing price and the closing price adjusted for dividends? I hope so, since this seems to me to be a fundamental requirement that every user of the DTN data feed should need.
DTN_Jay_Froscheiser -VP, Product Operations- Posts: 1746 Joined: May 3, 2004 DTN IQFeed/DTN.IQ/DTN NxCore	Posted: Jan 21, 2005 10:25 AM Msg. 2 of 2 Unfortunately, there is no way to do this at this time. The live quote data (watch lists, snapquotes, etc) are going to carry the data sent by the exchange at the current time. So, if adjustments are made by the exchange to the data, the live data will reflect that. The time and sales currently records what was sent at the time the data was recorded. Thus, these corrections will not be reflected in the intraday data (it should get corrected on historical data - daily). We are looking into passing those corrections to the intraday data, but it doesn't sound like that would accomplish what you want either. If we do this, both T&S and live quote data will match, but you won't be able to get both sets of data. Jay Froscheiser DTN Market Access, LLC.