problems retreiving realtime data V3 bloomberg

i am running real time data retreival via bloomberg v3 like this

>> [subs,t] = realtime(c,{'IBM US Equity','F US Equity'}), {'Last_Trade','Volume'},'v3stockticker') Error using blp/realtime (line 32) Not enough input arguments.

I do not understand the error in line 32. The corresponding line is posted below:

if ischar(f)

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

There is an additional bracket in your line of code

 [subs,t] = realtime(c,{'IBM US Equity','F US Equity'}), ...
        {'Last_Trade','Volume'},'v3stockticker')

Note the close bracket after {'IBM US Equity','F US Equity'} which means that the realtime function inputs are limited to just c and {'IBM US Equity','F US Equity'}

 [subs,t] = realtime(c,{'IBM US Equity','F US Equity'})

and the last two inputs are ignored..which means that not enough inputs are supplied and so the error message makes sense.

Just remove that unneeded bracket, replacing your line of code with

 [subs,t] = realtime(c,{'IBM US Equity','F US Equity'}, ...
        {'Last_Trade','Volume'},'v3stockticker')

Try the above and see what happens!

[Paul]

it works perfect now thanks. One more question. I discovered it was the lack of the "..." which i eliminated, what purpose do these points have?

One more question. I would like to have the datafeed which is now running apprpatly to be stored in a accumulating manner in a matlab file as i will have to work with the data. Any suggestions what will be the best way? thanks a lot so far

[Geoff Hayes]

The "..." means that the second line is just a continuation of the previous line. I did that in this case because I found that the line of code took two lines and it seemed cleaner to separate it in this fashion. Copying something like

 x = 
   randi(4,1,1)

will fail with the Error: Expression or statement is incomplete or incorrect. when pasted into (and then run from) the Command Window, but

x = ...
 randi(4,1,1)

will work.

As for accumulating the data, you could try to store the numeric data in a matrix (or cell array if some non-numeric data is expected) for each set of retrieved data points (in this case, I guess there would be data from IBM US Equity and F US Equity). You could probably just update the sample callback that you referenced in a previous question. Rather than storing the data in A that gets created on each call, you could use a persistent variable to store the data each time the callback is called. Of course, given the update rate (how often the callback is called) your new matrix might get very large.

I don't have the DataFeed Toolbox so can't provide much more detail. Type doc persistent in the Command Window for details on persistent local variables.

[Paul]

thanks a lot really appreciated your help