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»Forums Index »Archive (2017 and earlier) »IQFeed Developer Support »Retrieving the symbol information

Author	Topic: Retrieving the symbol information (5 messages, Page 1 of 1)
KDE -Interested User- Posts: 4 Joined: Jan 25, 2006	Posted: Feb 14, 2006 09:31 AM Msg. 1 of 5 Hello! Tell me please, is there a possibility to get any symbol information by the name of the symbol? For now, I require the Description of the symbol and its Point Value. Thank you. Regards, KDE
DTN_Jay_Froscheiser -VP, Product Operations- Posts: 1746 Joined: May 3, 2004 DTN IQFeed/DTN.IQ/DTN NxCore	Posted: Feb 14, 2006 09:34 AM Msg. 2 of 5 What type of symbol information are you looking for? There is a symbol lookup on the IQFeed website, and there is a lookup method as part of the IQFeed API. Please clarify what you are looking for and we will do our best to help. Jay Froscheiser DTN - Trading Markets
KDE -Interested User- Posts: 4 Joined: Jan 25, 2006	Posted: Feb 14, 2006 10:27 AM Msg. 3 of 5 The information I'm looking for is: 1) Symbol description 2) The Point Value I need to get this info programmatically, so web site search engine doesn't seem to be helpful. As for API, my application now uses it's TCP/IP part. Does it have such functions, or the only way is to use the COM part of the API?
DTN_Jay_Froscheiser -VP, Product Operations- Posts: 1746 Joined: May 3, 2004 DTN IQFeed/DTN.IQ/DTN NxCore	Posted: Feb 14, 2006 10:43 AM Msg. 4 of 5 The symbol lookup currently only has the symbol and description. We don't have the fundamental/meta data for symbols currently available. It has recently been requested on this forum, and it is something we have put on our to-do list for future releases. Jay Froscheiser DTN - Trading Markets
DTN_Steve_S -DTN Guru- Posts: 2093 Joined: Nov 21, 2005	Posted: Feb 14, 2006 11:21 AM Msg. 5 of 5 To answer your question concerning the API. You can use the symbol Lookup with sockets. You will simply need to create a socket connection to the Lookup Port. There is a page of the documentation listed as "Symbol Lookup via TCP/IP" Under the Lookup Data section which will explain it. If you have any additional questions about howto use the symbol lookup, feel free to post here.