How to Get last symbol price?

Created at 02 Mar 2021, 19:35
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budda_dan2020

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How to Get last symbol price?
02 Mar 2021, 19:35

Hi,

I am very impressed by professional and quick answer.

How can I get the last price of the symbol?

E.g. I want to get EURJPY price for now. If the market is closed now, I want to get the last value available.

I did it through from TrendbarResponse for last 5 days M1. But it took a long time to receive the response.

Is there any better method or API call?

@budda_dan2020
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vasile.peste
08 Jul 2021, 00:05 ( Updated at: 08 Jul 2021, 00:06 )

Hi, a way (not tested) for retrieving the last price of a symbol is requesting the latest ticks of the symbol.

Steps:

  1. Send a ProtoOAGetTickDataReq request (https://spotware.github.io/open-api-docs/messages/#protooagettickdatareq) setting "toTimestamp" to the actual date, and "fromTimestamp" to some time before the actual date (maybe 3-4 days before is a good choice to avoid getting zero ticks because of weekends).
  2. Get the latest tick by timestamp and then get its price. This should be the last symbol BID/ASK price (depending on which quotation type you requested in step 1).
@vasile.peste
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