Symbol lists and extended symbol information

[Yann]

Hello,

to maintain received data (at least nearly) for historical storage and backtesting, I need to get some information about subscribable symbols / symbol roots or a whole symbol list.
Also needed are entries like exchange trading times, available contracts (for futures and options), values like currency and big point value...

Is it possible to get this automatically by a provided API function or parsable files to reduce the amount of "manual" work?

I could not find any information about this yet.

Thank you in advance!

Best regards
Yann

[GenSpoo]

Hi Yann,

There is nothing like this in the Desktop API at this time. The Standard and Control APIs do contain more functionality, though I don't know if they can do what you ask either (I've never seen the docs on those APIs). It is my understanding that the Standard and Control APIs are only released under NDA, so you would need to talk to the appropriate folks in eSignal directly. Maybe Robi can shed some light or point the way.

Cheers... George