TradeStation Help

Insert Symbol List

The Insert Symbol List feature provides you with several 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.

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.