TradeStation Help

Insert Symbol List

The Insert Symbol List feature provides you with three types of symbol lists to insert into your active window. Custom Symbol Lists provides you with the most flexibility as it allows you to create and customize your own symbol lists or historical symbol lists. Once your custom/historical custom lists are created, you have the flexibility to consolidate the custom lists together. Reuters Symbols Lists contains the industry groups which offers you a breakdown of different market sector categories and their subcategories. TradeStation Symbol Lists includes a number of standard lists that are periodically updated. This includes Index Components, Indexes, Industry Groups and Largest Volume Stocks.

The Insert Symbol List dialog contains two panes; Symbol Lists and Symbols.  

 Access using the menu bar Insert > Insert Symbol List or Format > Manage Custom Symbol Lists menu sequence and click Insert from a List. The Insert Symbol List dialog is displayed.

Symbol Lists  

The Symbol Lists pane contains the Custom Symbol Lists, Reuters Symbol Lists, and TradeStation Symbol Lists. Symbol lists are displayed in a hierarchical tree structure organized by category.

• Click Expand to display the desired symbol list. If there are sub-categories, continue to click Expand until you have expanded the tree structure so that you can locate the list that you want to use.
• Select the symbol list name to insert.
• View Symbol - Displays the symbols associated with the selected symbol list in the Symbols pane.
• Manage Lists - Launches the Manage Custom Symbol Lists dialog for the selected symbol lists under Custom Symbol Lists.
  
  This feature provides the flexibility to modify the custom symbol lists i.e. adding, removing, sorting, repositioning symbols within the list prior to inserting the custom symbol list in the active window. For more information, see Manage Custom Symbol Lists.

Symbols  

The Symbols pane displays the symbols and their corresponding exchanges for the list selected in the Symbol Lists pane. The Symbols pane is only used for displaying symbols.

 Click OK to apply changes or Cancel to exit without any changes.