Updated the MFDS Codec for Ticker Plants
This morning I needed to finish up just two new messages in the NASDAQ MFDS data feed - the two Corporate Action messages. I had built the MFDS codec for the Ticker Plants more than a year ago, but then sometime in the middle of 2011 they changed the feed and added six new messages and dropped four, I think. In any case, it was a big change, and I spent several hours with the docs and my code to put in the new messages, and chop out the old.
In the end, it was nice to know that it took less than a day to get the new messages in, and decoding happily. Getting mutual funds will be nice, too. Just don't have a need for them right this second.