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»Forums Index »Archive (2017 and earlier) »Data and Content Support »Commodity Date of expiration

Author	Topic: Commodity Date of expiration (2 messages, Page 1 of 1)
krwkrw -Interested User- Posts: 1 Joined: May 13, 2004	Posted: Jun 14, 2004 10:25 AM Msg. 1 of 2 I understand the watchlist, I am just hoping to retrieve the expiration date for 04Dec Corn or 05 July Corn or whatever, I only need to retrieve the date one time and then I can do the calculations after that. I have no need to retreive it real-time as that is complete overkill for me. You must have the value stored somewhere, becuase you are using it to calculate days to expiration too. Do I have access to this table? Thanks Mike -----Original Message----- From: IQFeed Developer Support [mailto:] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:37 PM To: rebermp@hotmail.com Subject: Re: IQFeed NOTICE: IQFeed 2.3.0.1 is now available (Thread:342615) From looking at your code excerpt, it looks like you are trying to get historical data for a symbol. You cannot get the Days To Expiration data for history data. The Days To Expiration data is included for streaming data in the Update Message. I'm not sure how much you know about IQFeed, so I'll give you some basic info. Sorry if you already know this! At the start of your program, you need to call RegisterClientApp(), and connect to IQConnect. I can't tell from your code excerpt if you are doing this. If you're not, you can consult the help documenation for "Logging into IQFeed", and "Getting Streaming Data". After that is done, you are ready to request symbols, and receive streaming data on them. First, you must watch a symbol ("Manage a Watch List" in the help). Then, when a trade or a quote occurs for that symbol, you will receive an Update Message (begins with a "Q"). Field #49 in that message is the Days To Expiration field ("Update Message Format" in the help). As far as the symbol @TB{month][year], you can run the SymbolLookup test application, which is under the VC++ Examples directory in your install directory. Type in @TB, and you will receive symbols that you can choose from. Also, if you have specific issues with the help documentation, please let us know. We'd like to make it more clear where we can. Thanks! Visit our new online forums! DTN employees actively monitor the forums to provide you the highest level of support in the industry. Our forums also has an announcements area where you can learn about new features or changes within DTN. You can even use the forums to exchange trading ideas or tips and tricks on how you use your DTN data to be more profitable. Go to http://forums.dtniq.com now to start sharing information with fellow DTN subscribers! Natalie Hannan Software Engineer DTN Market Access http://www.iqfeed.net Edited by DTN_Steve_S on Sep 19, 2011 at 09:20 AM
DTN_Jay_Froscheiser -VP, Product Operations- Posts: 1746 Joined: May 3, 2004 DTN IQFeed/DTN.IQ/DTN NxCore	Posted: Jun 16, 2004 10:59 AM Msg. 2 of 2 Mike, Yes. Expiration date is a field in our datafeed. You just need to set a watch on the symbol and parse the fundamental record (which you get immediately) for the expiration date. The expiration date is not an included field when pulling historical data (it is only available in a fundamental or quote record). Jay Froscheiser DTN Market Access, LLC.