Using the EGID Delayed Feed
The feed consists of simple ASP pages that are constructed in a semi comma delimited format. To access these pages, you will require a username and a password which are supplied with each request in the following format:
username&ps=password
Other parameters could be added in any sequence, where applicable, in the following format:
?un=username&ps=password&sid=xxxxxxxx&et=xx:xx:xx
and so forth.
Some parameters will result in returning data from after the given parameter, these are:
- Et: Execution Time
- Bid: News ID
Soma URLs allow different combinations of parameters, such as:
- Daily Trades
Where the SID parameter or ET parameter could be used separately or together.
Basic Symbol Information:
The URL:
- ISINSymbol Code
- Symbol Type
- Sector ID
- English Name
- Arabic Name
- Old Symbol Code
- Reuters Code
- Currency
- Bond Type
- Listed Shares
- Paid Shares
- Face Value
The Parameters:
- Sid : for ISIN Symbol Code
Market Daily Trades:
The URL:
- Trade Date
- Symbol Code
- Symbol Type
- Market Code
- Ticket Number
- Trade Price
- Volume Traded
- Trade Value
- Trade Value in EGP
- Trade Execution Time
The Parameters:
- Sid : for Symbol Code
- Et: Execution Time in hh:mm:ss format [this will get all trades that happened after the given time]
Symbols Trade Summary:
The URL:
- Symbol Code
- Symbol Type
- Last Trade Price
- Last Trade Volume
- Last Trade Value
- Last Trade Time
- Day Open Price
- Day Close Price
- Day Highest Price
- Day Lowest Price
- 52 Week Highest Price
- 52 Week Highest Price Date
- 52 Week Lowest Price
- 52 Week Lowest Price Date
- Total Trades Today
- Total Volume Today
- Total Value Today
- Average Change Net
- Average Change Percent
- Last Change Net
- Last Change Percent
- Last Trade Date
The Parameters:
- Sid : for Symbol Code
Market Announcements:
The URL:
- News Type ID
- News ID
- Announcement Time
- Announcement Title
- Announcement Content
- Material Event [for Internal purposes]
The Parameters:
- Bid : for News ID
Note: Setting the BID parameter will result in returning all announcements from after the given ID.
Case Index:
username&ps=password
Hierarchy as follows:
#IndexTime;OpenPrice;HighPrice;LowPrice;ClosePrice;Change
Same hierarchy as we put it on the web site
Market Summary
username&ps=password
Hierarchy as follows:
#Advanced number of symbols, number of trades, volume, value
#Loosers number of symbols, number of trades, volume, value
#Unchanged number of symbols, number of trades, volume, value
#Total number of symbols, number of trades, volume, value
#Bonds number of symbols, number of trades, volume, value
#Market Total number of symbols, number of trades, volume, value
#OTC number of symbols, number of trades, volume, value
Same hierarchy as we put it on the web site
TOP 10 GAINERS
username&ps=password
Hierarchy as follows:
#CompanyName,AvgChangePrc,TodayTotalTrades,TodayTotalVolume,TodayTotalValue,LastTradeTime,LastTradePrice
Same hierarchy as we put it on the web site
TOP 10 LOOSERS
username&ps=password
Hierarchy as follows:
#CompanyName,AvgChangePrc,TodayTotalTrades,TodayTotalVolume,TodayTotalValue,LastTradeTime,LastTradePrice
Same hierarchy as we put it on the web site
Arabic Bulletins
username&ps=password
Hierarchy as follows:
Bulletin code, Bulletin type,bulletin date, Symbol code, message
And the description of the bulletin types:
username&ps=password
Hierarchy as follows:
Bulletin Type Code, Bulletin Type Description
PS: the page contains today's news only. If you want to retrieve the news of a specificdate you have to add that date in the URL as follows (with the same format):
i.e: username&ps=password&date=2005/06/08
Retail vs Institutional
username&ps=password
Hierarchy as follows:
Trade date, total individuals, total institutes, rate individual, rate institutes
Data refilledat 4:00pm everyday. Before that, the data found is from the previous day.
Egyptians vs foreigners
username&ps=password
Hierarchy as follows:
Trade date, buy foreigner LE, rate buy foreigner LE, buy foreigner $, rate buy foreigner $, sell foreigner LE, rate sell foreigner LE, sell foreigner $, rate sell foreigner $, Value total, total foreigner, total Egyptian, rate foreigner, rate Egyptian
Data refilledat 4:00pm everyday. Before that, the data found is from the previous day.
Sectors
username&ps=password
Hierarchy as follows:
Sector code, sector english name, sector arabic name.