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Author Topic: symbol limit for futures historical data (3 messages, Page 1 of 1)

traps
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Joined: May 24, 2011
Posted: May 29, 2011 04:28 AM          Msg. 1 of 3
Hi, I was wondering how you calculate the symbol limit for getting historical data for futures.

Each futures instrument will have many individual monthly contracts in the history - does each contract count as one symbol, or is it one symbol for all of the contracts? E.g. for Crude Oil, is it one symbol 'CL' or is it one symbol for each 'CLF1', 'CLG1', 'CLH1'?

What about the continuous contract symbols 'CL#' ?

thanks!

DTN_Steve_S
-DTN Guru-
Posts: 2093
Joined: Nov 21, 2005
Posted: May 31, 2011 08:59 AM          Msg. 2 of 3
There is no symbol limit for historical data currently. The existing symbol limit only applies to the number of simultaneous symbols you can request streaming data on.

traps
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Posted: May 31, 2011 09:16 AM          Msg. 3 of 3
Makes sense, thanks very much.
 

 

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