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Symbol Command Rules

A Symbol command is an instruction to replace or append a symbol or symbols to the active window. You can specify multiple symbols in a Symbol command.

• A Symbol command consists of a symbol name (not symbol description) followed by an optional interval and/or range parameter (5 min, 30 days, etc.).
• Only valid symbol names can be entered, not symbol descriptions. 
• Symbol commands can have multiple parameters. Multiple parameters must be separated by a space.
• Multiple symbols (with parameters) may be inserted by separating them with a single comma ( , ) or double semi-colons ( ;; )

Example

The following includes several examples of valid Symbol commands:

• Cisco chart using the default symbol interval

CSCO

• Intel 30 minute chart

INTC 30 min   -or-   INTC 30 minute

• Microsoft 5 minute chart for 10 days

MSFT 5 min 10 days

MSFT 10 days 5 min

• Cisco 30 second chart

CSCO 30 sec   -or-   CSCO 30 seconds

• IBM daily chart for 250 days

IBM Daily 250 days

IBM 250 days Daily

IBM Daily Days 250

• Append additional data streams to chart: MSFT 5 & 30 minutes sub-graphs added underneath primary stream (data1)
  
  MSFT 5 min ;; MSFT 30 min

Related Topics

Entering Commands in the Command Line

Setting Command Line Preferences

Command Line Errors