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MIDPRICE

essegisolutions edited this page Jan 13, 2018 · 8 revisions

What MIDPRICE does?

This API returns the midpoint price (MIDPRICE) values. MIDPRICE = (highest high + lowest low)/2. The related REST API documentation is here


Including the MIDPRICE namespace

The very first thing to do before diving into MIDPRICE calls is to include the right namespace.


using Avapi.AvapiMIDPRICE

How to get a MIDPRICE object?

The MIDPRICE object is retrieved from the Connection object.

The snippet below shows how to get the Connection object:


...
IAvapiConnection connection = AvapiConnection.Instance
connection.Connect("Your Alpha Vantage API Key !!!!");
...

Once you got the Connection object you can extract the MIDPRICE from it.


...
Int_MIDPRICE midprice = 
	connection.GetQueryObject_MIDPRICE();

Perform a MIDPRICE Synchronous Request

To perform a MIDPRICE request you have 2 options:

  1. The request with constants:

IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE Query(string symbol,
		MIDPRICE_interval interval,
		int time_period);

  1. The request without constants:

IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE QueryPrimitive(string symbol,
		string interval,
		string time_period);

Perform an MIDPRICE Asynchronous Request

To perform an MIDPRICE asynchronous request you have 2 options:

  1. The request with constants:

async Task<IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE> QueryAsync(string symbol,
		MIDPRICE_interval interval,
		int time_period);

  1. The request without constants:

async Task<IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE> QueryAsync(string symbol,
		string interval,
		string time_period);

Parameters

The parameters below are needed to perform the MIDPRICE request.

  • symbol: The name of the equity
  • interval: The time interval between two consecutive data points in the time series.
  • time_period: Number of data points used to calculate each MIDPRICE value.

Please notice that the info above are copied from the official alphavantage documentation, that you can find here.


The request with constants

The request with constants implies the use of different enums:

  • MIDPRICE_interval

MIDPRICE_interval: The time interval between two consecutive data points in the time series.


public enum MIDPRICE_interval
{
	none,
	n_1min,
	n_5min,
	n_15min,
	n_30min,
	n_60min,
	daily,
	weekly,
	monthly
}


MIDPRICE Response

The response of a MIDPRICE request is an object that implements the IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE interface.


public interface IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE
{
    string RawData
    {
        get;
    }
    IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE_Content Data
    {
        get;
    }
}

The IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE interface has two members: RawData and Data.

  • RawData: represents the json response in string format.
  • Data: It represents the parsed response in an object implementing the interface IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE_Content.

Complete Example of a Console App: Display the result of a MIDPRICE request by using the method Query (synchronous request)


using System;
using System.IO;
using Avapi.AvapiMIDPRICE;

namespace Avapi
{
    public class Example
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Creating the connection object
            IAvapiConnection connection = AvapiConnection.Instance;

            // Set up the connection and pass the API_KEY provided by alphavantage.co
            connection.Connect("Your Alpha Vantage API Key !!!!");

            // Get the MIDPRICE query object
            Int_MIDPRICE midprice =
                connection.GetQueryObject_MIDPRICE();

            // Perform the MIDPRICE request and get the result
            IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE midpriceResponse = 
            midprice.Query(
                 "MSFT",
                 Const_MIDPRICE.MIDPRICE_interval.n_1min,
                 10);

            // Printout the results
            Console.WriteLine("******** RAW DATA MIDPRICE ********");
            Console.WriteLine(midpriceResponse.RawData);

            Console.WriteLine("******** STRUCTURED DATA MIDPRICE ********");
            var data = midpriceResponse.Data;
            if (data.Error)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(data.ErrorMessage);
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Symbol: " + data.MetaData.Symbol);
                Console.WriteLine("Indicator: " + data.MetaData.Indicator);
                Console.WriteLine("LastRefreshed: " + data.MetaData.LastRefreshed);
                Console.WriteLine("Interval: " + data.MetaData.Interval);
                Console.WriteLine("TimePeriod: " + data.MetaData.TimePeriod);
                Console.WriteLine("TimeZone: " + data.MetaData.TimeZone);
                Console.WriteLine("========================");
                Console.WriteLine("========================");
                foreach (var technical in data.TechnicalIndicator)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("MIDPRICE: " + technical.MIDPRICE);
                    Console.WriteLine("DateTime: " + technical.DateTime);
                    Console.WriteLine("========================");
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Complete Example of a Windows Form App: Display the result of a MIDPRICE request by using the method QueryAsync (asynchronous request)


using Avapi;
using Avapi.AvapiMIDPRICE
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApp1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private IAvapiConnection m_connection = AvapiConnection.Instance;
        private Int_MIDPRICE m_midprice;
        private IAvapiResponse_MIDPRICE m_midpriceResponse;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
        {
            // Set up the connection and pass the API_KEY provided by alphavantage.co
            m_connection.Connect("Your Alpha Vantage Key");

            // Get the MIDPRICE query object
            m_midprice = m_connection.GetQueryObject_MIDPRICE();

            base.OnLoad(e);
        }

        private async void MIDPRICEAsyncButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // Perform the MIDPRICE request and get the result
            m_midpriceResponse = 
                await m_midprice.QueryAsync(
                     "MSFT",
                     Const_MIDPRICE.MIDPRICE_interval.n_1min,
                     10);

             // Show the results
            resultTextBox.AppendText("******** RAW DATA MIDPRICE ********" + "\n");
            resultTextBox.AppendText(m_midpriceResponse.RawData + "\n");

            resultTextBox.AppendText("******** STRUCTURED DATA MIDPRICE ********" + "\n");
            var data = m_midpriceResponse.Data;
            if (data.Error)
            {
                resultTextBox.AppendText(data.ErrorMessage + "\n");
            }
            else
            {
                resultTextBox.AppendText("Symbol: " + data.MetaData.Symbol + "\n");
                resultTextBox.AppendText("Indicator: " + data.MetaData.Indicator + "\n");
                resultTextBox.AppendText("LastRefreshed: " + data.MetaData.LastRefreshed + "\n");
                resultTextBox.AppendText("Interval: " + data.MetaData.Interval + "\n");
                resultTextBox.AppendText("TimePeriod: " + data.MetaData.TimePeriod + "\n");
                resultTextBox.AppendText("TimeZone: " + data.MetaData.TimeZone + "\n");
                resultTextBox.AppendText("========================" + "\n");
                resultTextBox.AppendText("========================" + "\n");
                foreach (var technical in data.TechnicalIndicator)
                {
                    resultTextBox.AppendText("MIDPRICE: " + technical.MIDPRICE + "\n");
                    resultTextBox.AppendText("DateTime: " + technical.DateTime + "\n");
                    resultTextBox.AppendText("========================" + "\n");
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

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