The first one sounds like some kind of custom FIX feed. That would be unrelated....

		apaprocki on Feb 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bloomberg market data API made public for C++, .Ne... The first one sounds like some kind of custom FIX feed. That would be unrelated. The latter is essentially what was released today. The request/response mode is used for the indicative/historical retrieval and subscriptions are used for the realtime data.