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# Regional/Participant Quotes

Subscribe to `QUOTE_PARTICIPANT` to receive regional or participant best bid and offer (BBO) updates. Each update identifies the quote originator and includes its bid, offer, quantity, and quote condition.

Use these updates to view the liquidity contributed by individual market participants or regions. The following messages show participant BBO updates for AAPL.

### Regional/participant best bid and offer message example

```protobuf
2022-02-02 19:54:52,408,INFO,Message: subscriptionResponse {
  status {
    result: SUCCESS
    service: REAL_TIME
  }
  symbol: "AAPL"
  marketId: 5389879102616877808
  channelId: 16
  subscriptionType: QUOTE_PARTICIPANT
}

...

2022-02-02 19:54:52,411,INFO,Message: marketUpdate {
  marketId: 5389879102616877808
  symbol: "AAPL"
  transactionTime: 1643831692111003392
  distributionTime: 1643831692111348307
  marketSequence: 11627547
  originatorId: "P"
  bbo {
    bidPrice: 1752500
    bidQuantity: 3
    bidOriginator: "P"
    offerPrice: 1752600
    offerQuantity: 2
    offerOriginator: "P"
    quoteCondition: "R"
    regional: true
  }
}

2022-02-02 19:54:52,411,INFO,Message: marketUpdate {
  marketId: 5389879102616877808
  symbol: "AAPL"
  transactionTime: 1643831692111186000
  distributionTime: 1643831692111379737
  marketSequence: 11627548
  originatorId: "K"
  bbo {
    bidPrice: 1752500
    bidQuantity: 1
    bidOriginator: "K"
    offerPrice: 1752600
    offerQuantity: 1
    offerOriginator: "K"
    quoteCondition: "R"
    regional: true
  }
}

2022-02-02 19:54:52,412,INFO,Message: marketUpdate {
  marketId: 5389879102616877808
  symbol: "AAPL"
  transactionTime: 1643831692111226000
  distributionTime: 1643831692111415534
  marketSequence: 11627549
  originatorId: "K"
  bbo {
    bidPrice: 1752400
    bidQuantity: 5
    bidOriginator: "K"
    offerPrice: 1752600
    offerQuantity: 1
    offerOriginator: "K"
    quoteCondition: "R"
    regional: true
  }
}

2022-02-02 19:54:52,412,INFO,Message: marketUpdate {
  marketId: 5389879102616877808
  symbol: "AAPL"
  transactionTime: 1643831692111546200
  distributionTime: 1643831692111561806
  marketSequence: 11627550
  originatorId: "Q"
  bbo {
    bidPrice: 1752500
    bidQuantity: 3
    bidOriginator: "Q"
    offerPrice: 1752600
    offerQuantity: 3
    offerOriginator: "Q"
    quoteCondition: "R"
    regional: true
  }
}
```


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