From time to time, a security will change its ticker symbol. This could be a result of a merger, acquisition, a name change, or other reasons. This will create a positions.updated
event including the previous symbol and the new symbol (current
).
{
"id": "event_c4b2c210-ce32-41d4-a9a1-cfad4fdf191c",
"type": "positions.updated",
"timestamp": "2019-03-29T07:02:33.200962333Z",
"payload": {
"accountID": "272472de-6522-41be-85a6-31af662251dc.1520386265152",
"accountNo": "DWFE000039",
"userID": "272472de-6522-41be-85a6-31af662251dc",
"updateReason": "SYMBOL_CHANGE",
"previous": {
"symbol": "SCTY"
},
"current": {
"symbol": "TSLA"
}
}
}
In this example ticker symbol SCTY was changed to TSLA.