No data for RIC VXV8^0

@Jerome Guiot-Dorel,

Explanation on the RIC syntax using a ^

The ^0 indicates a delisted RIC (one that is currently not in use). The ^ is added after the original RIC name.

Usually you find a month and year code after the ^, like here: TRIL.L^I09. Syntax description: the original RIC (TRIL.L) is followed by “^”, followed by a month code and a year code that indicate when the RIC was delisted. For equities the month code starts at “A” for January, so “I” is for September. The year code 09 means 2009.

In your case VXV8^0 the information after the ^ is shorter. I'm not a data specialist but I'm guessing the reason is that the VXV8 RIC is subject to reuse, as it would apply both to a future contract for 2008 and for 2018.

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Requesting data for this RIC using DSS

Here is the body of a request that will retrieve data for this instrument:

{
  "ExtractionRequest": {
    "@odata.type": "#ThomsonReuters.Dss.Api.Extractions.ExtractionRequests.TimeSeriesExtractionRequest",
    "ContentFieldNames": [
      "Trade Date", "Expiration Date", "Last Trading Day",
      "Open Price", "High Price", "Low Price", "Close Price", "Volume",
      "Ask Price", "Bid Price"
    ],
    "IdentifierList": {
      "@odata.type": "#ThomsonReuters.Dss.Api.Extractions.ExtractionRequests.InstrumentIdentifierList", 
      "InstrumentIdentifiers": [ { "Identifier": "VXV8^0", "IdentifierType": "Ric" } ],
      "ValidationOptions": { "AllowHistoricalInstruments": true, "AllowInactiveInstruments": true },
      "UseUserPreferencesForValidationOptions": false
    },
    "Condition": {
      "LastPriceOnly": false,
      "StartDate": "2008-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "EndDate": "2008-11-01T00:00:00.000Z"
    }
  }
}

Extract of the results:

{
    "@odata.context": "https://hosted.datascopeapi.reuters.com/RestApi/v1/$metadata#ThomsonReuters.Dss.Api.Extractions.ExtractionRequests.ExtractionResult",
    "Contents": [
        {
            "IdentifierType": "Ric",
            "Identifier": "VXV8^0",
            "Trade Date": "2008-10-22",
            "Expiration Date": "2008-10-21",
            "Last Trading Day": "2008-10-21",
            "Open Price": null,
            "High Price": null,
            "Low Price": null,
            "Close Price": null,
            "Volume": null,
            "Ask Price": null,
            "Bid Price": null
        },
        {
            "IdentifierType": "Ric",
            "Identifier": "VXV8^0",
            "Trade Date": "2008-10-21",
            "Expiration Date": "2008-10-21",
            "Last Trading Day": "2008-10-21",
            "Open Price": 54.5,
            "High Price": 55.2,
            "Low Price": 49.88,
            "Close Price": 52.99,
            "Volume": 3426,
            "Ask Price": 52.99,
            "Bid Price": 52.1
        },
        {
            "IdentifierType": "Ric",
            "Identifier": "VXV8^0",
            "Trade Date": "2008-10-20",
            "Expiration Date": "2008-10-21",
            "Last Trading Day": "2008-10-21",
            "Open Price": 61,
            "High Price": 62,
            "Low Price": 52.03,
            "Close Price": 52.35,
            "Volume": 2523,
            "Ask Price": 52.35,
            "Bid Price": 52.35
        },

Hope this helps.