Stefano said: > The protocol is officially documented:
Oh, this is wonderful. I looked for this & didn't find it. It looks straightforward to code to this. Now the question is, Is it worth doing? 0. How timely is the information provided by this service? 1. How do they plan to stay in business given the low fees they charge? What's the business model? How long have they been running? Where are their financial statements? etc If it's worth doing, I have a couple of technical questions. 2. Do we think the sequence is a. CONNECT using TCP to feed1.opentick.com:10010 b. Login c. Request feeds for symbols d. Wait for continuing stream of tick information over the connection e. Terminate the connection when the market closes 3. Do responses to requests come back intermixed with tick data? I'm guessing yes, and you have to look at the request ID to see what request is being responded to Henry Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Stefano Lanzavecchia > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:00 AM > To: 'Programming forum' > Subject: RE: [Jprogramming] RE J language API for > www.opentick.com stockdatafeed? > > > to > > reverse-engineer the protocol from other libraries, the risk is that > > if > > OpenTick changes the protocol, > > As usual, I was too hasty in my conclusions. The protocol is > officially > documented: > http://www.opentick.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=general:opentick_ protocol_speci > fication > > -- Stef > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
