Hi Sergio,

It seems highly unlikely that the issue is in RBloomberg. Two reasons why I
think this:

1) You can retrieve data for other tickers, so your configuration works. The
package doesn't care what ticker you give it; it just passes that along to
Bloomberg.
2) In Excel, BDH("ES1 Index","PX_OPEN","1990-01-01") returns "#N/A N/A".

You should go back to Bloomberg. The problem is probably on their side, even
if they don't realize/admit it yet.

Thanks,
John


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Sergio Bizzotto <
Sergio.Bizzotto@reechaim.com> wrote:

>
>
>  Hello,
>
> ****
>
> Since yesterday it seems like the historical data retrieval for the ticker
> ES1 Index does not work, NULL is returned. I run it for months and it used
> to work without any problems.****
>
> ** **
>
> I am using the following:
>
> ****
>
> conn <- blpConnect();
> test=bdh(conn, securities="ES1 Index", fields=c("PX_OPEN", "PX_HIGH",
> "PX_LOW", "PX_LAST", "PX_BID", "PX_ASK", "PX_VOLUME"),
> start_date=as.Date(”1990-01-01”), include.non.trading.days=F,
> dates.as.row.names=FALSE);
>
> The same code works and retrieves data for all the other tickers I am using
> (87 futures tickers), including “NQ1 Index”.****
>
> ** **
>
> I am using Rbloomberg_0.4-149 with rJava_0.8-5.****
>
>
> Is anybody experiencing the same issue? I have spoken yesterday to
> Bloomberg and they said that their API is working fine and there are
> currently no problems. I also run the Bloomberg API diagnostic test and
> everything seems to work properly. ****
>
> Initially I thought the problem could have been caused by yesterday’s US
> holiday but today the problem still persists when retrieving the data for
> that ticker using RBloomberg. Any chance the problem is on the RBloomberg
> package side?****
>
>
> Thanks.****
>
>
> Regards,
> Sergio****
>
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