Information window

This window allows you to display and edit preferences of the symbol.

• Symbol
  The short name, used in ‘Select’ window and with quotation import functions. If you use them, please check if ticker given in this field is the same as used in your quotation datasource
• Alias
  The alternative ticker name. It will be useful if you e.g. get the realtime quotes and backfill from two separate datasources, that use different ticker names.
• Full name
  Official version of firm name
• Code
  Symbol code number
• Web ID
  Symbol Web ID - can be used when you define Profile view
• Address
  Corporation address
• Issue
  Total number of shares
• Nominal value
• Book value
• Currency



• Market
  Indicates which market the symbol belongs to.
• Industry
  Indicates which industry the symbol belongs to.
• Group
  Indicates which Group the symbol belongs to.



• Round lot size
  Various instruments are traded with various "trading units" or "blocks". For example you can purchase fractional number of units of mutual fund, but you can not purchase fractional number of shares. Sometimes you have to buy in 10s or 100s lots. AmiBroker now allows you to specify the block size on global and per-symbol level.
  You can define per-symbol round lot size in the Symbol->Information page . The value of zero means that the symbol has no special round lot size and will use "Default round lot size" (global setting) from the Automatic Analysis settings page. If default size is set also to zero it means that fractional number of shares/contracts are allowed.
  
• Tick size
  This setting controls the minimum price move of given symbol. You can define it on global and per-symbol level. As with round lot size, you can define per-symbol tick size in the Symbol->Information page (pic. 3). The value of zero instructs AmiBroker to use "default tick size" defined in the Settings page (pic. 1) of Automatic Analysis window. If default tick size is also set to zero it means that there is no minimum price move.
  Note that the tick size setting affects ONLY trades exited by built-in stops and/or ApplyStop(). The backtester assumes that price data follow tick size requirements and it does not change price arrays supplied by the user.
  So specifying tick size makes sense only if you are using built-in stops so exit points are generated at "allowed" price levels instead of calculated ones. For example in Japan - you can not have fractional parts of yen so you should define global ticksize to 1, so built-in stops exit trades at integer levels.
• Margin deposit - explained in Backtesting systems for futures contracts
• Point value - explained in Backtesting systems for futures contracts



• Continuous quotations
  Enables continuous trading for this symbol (this enables candlestick charts and manual entry open/high/low/volume controls and candlestick charts), otherwise symbol is traded with price fixing
• Index
  Specifies if symbol belongs to Indexes category.
• Favourites
  Specifies if symbol belongs to Favourites category.
• Use only local database for this symbol
  Indicates that symbol is not updated via the plugin in real-time database. This field is checked by default if the symbol is added into realtime database as a result of import from ASCII file (also AmiQuote download). This setting allows you to keep additional symbols in the database and prevent plugin from overwriting the imported data.

For explanation of Fundamental data fields please read "Tutorial: Using fundamental data" chapter of this guide.