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Rblpapi / getBars / eventType

2 messages · Oleg Mubarakshin, John Laing

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Oleg Mubarakshin
# 
Hi Dirk and all,

It's said that for getBars:
eventType = c("TRADE", "BID", "ASK")

What is the 'eventType' exactly?

The results for different types look confusing:

eventType = "TRADE"
1 2023-03-08 01:00:00 81.91 82.27 81.87 82.19        77     79 6480.73
2 2023-03-08 01:15:00 82.20 82.20 82.10 82.10         2      2  164.30
3 2023-03-08 01:30:00 82.11 82.19 82.03 82.03        62     63 5173.13
4 2023-03-08 01:45:00 82.13 82.19 82.06 82.14        23     23 1888.74
5 2023-03-08 02:00:00 82.06 82.21 82.05 82.20        27     31 2546.49
6 2023-03-08 02:15:00 82.22 82.22 82.22 82.22         1      1   82.22


eventType = "BID"
1 2023-03-08 00:50:01 81.73 82.07 81.67 82.06      1413   8667  710390.1
2 2023-03-08 01:05:01 82.06 82.25 82.05 82.19      2663  19367 1590846.2
3 2023-03-08 01:20:01 82.19 82.20 82.03 82.17      1867  14048 1153414.9
4 2023-03-08 01:35:01 82.17 82.18 82.00 82.06      1483  11796  968171.6
5 2023-03-08 01:50:01 82.05 82.16 82.03 82.13      1677  15189 1247051.2
6 2023-03-08 02:05:01 82.13 82.21 82.10 82.14      1176  12131  996505.2


eventType = "ASK"
1 2023-03-08 00:50:01 81.81 82.10 81.75 82.09      1440   9533  781562.4
2 2023-03-08 01:05:01 82.09 82.29 82.07 82.23      3739  37173 3055594.0
3 2023-03-08 01:20:01 82.23 82.23 82.06 82.20      2268  17855 1466788.4
4 2023-03-08 01:35:01 82.20 82.20 82.01 82.08      1856  15223 1249880.9
5 2023-03-08 01:50:01 82.08 82.20 82.06 82.17      1495  12756 1047894.9
6 2023-03-08 02:05:01 82.17 82.23 82.13 82.17      1487  16442 1351371.2



Code was:
x <- getBars(security = "COQ3 Comdty",
             eventType = c("TRADE", "BID", "ASK")[1],
             barInterval = 15,
             startTime = as.POSIXct("2023-03-03"),
             endTime = as.POSIXct("2023-07-16"),
             options = NULL,
             verbose = FALSE,
             returnAs = getOption("blpType", "matrix"),
             tz = Sys.getenv("TZ", unset = "UTC"),
             con = bb.con)


Thanks.
John Laing
# 
Hi Oleg,

The eventType refers to anything that happens in the market for a security.
A trade is obvious, but for bid/ask I believe an event is any time that
side of the market changes (either quantity or level). You could confirm
this with the helpdesk, as the documentation is not really clear.

Hope that helps,
JL

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 6:37?PM Oleg Mubarakshin <oleg.mubarakshin at gmail.com>
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