Add Symbol List
The Add Symbol List feature provides you with several types of symbol lists to add to 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.
The Add Symbol List dialog contains two panes; Symbol Lists and Symbols.
Access using the Data > Add Symbol List or Data > Edit Lists menu sequence and click add from a List. The Add Symbol List dialog is displayed.
Symbol Lists
The Symbol Lists pane contains the Custom Symbol Lists
- 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 add.
- 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 adding 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.