Hi everyone,
I’m writing a program in python to implement my strategy, part of that strategy is to get the AM data for select group of stocks that meet a certain criteria (e.g. all stocks that have an opening price < $100)
I’m using polygon’s websocket with my Alpaca API key, from chatting with polygon the best way to get this data is to subscribe to AM.*, however in doing so I seem to be missing out on a lot of data.
For testing purposes I have my program subscribe to AM.* then filter out one stock – in this example PLUG. I put a timestamp on the minute every time a new message for this stock comes through:
2 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:17:00
3 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:18:00
4 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:19:00
5 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:23:00
6 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:25:00
As you can see there are gaps in the data, this is a heavily traded stock so there should be messages coming in for it every minute.
Here’s what it looks like when I subscribe to AM.PLUG specifically:
2 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:27:00
3 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:28:00
4 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:29:00
5 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:30:00
6 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:31:00
7 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:32:00
8 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:33:00
9 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:34:00
10 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:35:00
11 PLUG - 2021-01-21 11:36:00
No gaps, and this can run for hours with data coming in every minute.
I’m on OSX and this is using polygon’s websocket client: GitHub - polygon-io/client-python: A python client library for accessing Polygon's APIs which uses the websocket library.
What am I missing on my end? Feels like there’s some limitation that isn’t allowing for all the data to come through, at most I can get about 700-800 entries per minute which is nowhere near what it should be.
Appreciate any help,
Thanks!