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»Forums Index »Archive (2017 and earlier) »IQFeed Developer Support »Watch only returning 't' messages, not 'p'

Author	Topic: Watch only returning 't' messages, not 'p' (2 messages, Page 1 of 1)
shortorlong -Interested User- Posts: 16 Joined: Jan 31, 2008	Posted: Feb 16, 2008 04:50 PM Msg. 1 of 2 Sometimes I'll set a watch on a particular option symbol eg: FIQ QD I'll read the lines that I get back from IQFeed and I only see 'T' messages ex: 'T,20080216 17:47:00' I am trying to get a 'P' message so that I can get Open Interest. But all I get are these 'T' messages, even when I send a force request to IQFeed ex: 'fFIQ QD' Do you know what may be happening here?
DTN_Steve_S -DTN Guru- Posts: 2093 Joined: Nov 21, 2005	Posted: Feb 18, 2008 10:28 AM Msg. 2 of 2 shortorlong, The 'T' messages you are receiving are timestamp messages and are sent every minute. The force command does not work unless you are already watching a symbol (it is not designed to be used as a snapshot service). When you issue a watch request for a symbol, you should recieve a Fundamental message ("F") and a Summary message ("P") immediately. This will be followed by Quote/Update messages ("Q") everytime a field in the Update message for that symbol updates. This is just a guess, but I think you are probably not sending the watch commands to IQFeed properly. If you want to email me at developer support with a code snippit from where you make your requests, I can help more.