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Ticker Symbols in QCharts
by Bill Bledsoe & Larry Marchman
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QCharts Symbol Guide
at Quote.com
Click here
to access the Quote.com home page. In the upper right corner
mouse over (hover your mouse arrow over) Help (just below My
Account) and click the QCharts link. Look in the left side menu
of the QCharts KnowledgeBase for Quote Symbols Guide.
Usage Note: If you find the
Customer Portal window for the KnowledgeBase that opens to be
too small (it's currently not resizable), you can right-click
the "Contents" tab (next to FAQ tab) and select "Open in New
Window" and have the page open in a regular Browser, so it'll be
bigger and easier to deal with.
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Symbol Lookup page at the "New" Quote.com site ClickHere
Usage Note:
At this site, the Futures symbols are in eSignal
format.
This example
shows how to convert to QCharts format.
eSignal ES
Z6 SP 500 emini December 2006 - CME exchange
(Sym<Space>MY)
QCharts
ES06Z SP 500 emini December 2006 - CME exchange
(SymYYM) |
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Click here to
go to the Futures page. This page has several commodity symbols
(Gold, Oil, Copper, etc) for QCharts and some explanations.
Here's the symbol lookup page at the NASDAQ.
Click the "Symbol Lookup" button inside the
Quotes box on this page:
http://quotes.nasdaq.com/reference/comlookup.stm
Also, below the Quotes box, look for the
links under "U.S. Symbol Changes" for links out to the Securities Lists. These
are helpful ticker research tools.
If you have a question about a ticker symbol
in QCharts,
click here
to ask it.
Here are some commonly used Index ticker
symbols in QCharts:
Indexes:
| The Dow
Jones Industrials |
INDEX:INDU |
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NASDAQ
Composite |
INDEX:COMPX |
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Russel 1000 |
INDEX:RUI.X |
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NASDAQ 100 |
INDEX:NDX.X |
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Russel 2000 |
INDEX:RUT.X |
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S&P 100
- The OEX |
INDEX:OEX |
| Russel
3000 |
INDEX:RUA.X |
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S&P 400
Midcap Index |
INDEX:IDX |
| CBOE
Volatility |
INDEX:VIX.X |
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S&P 500 |
INDEX:INX |
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Semiconductors |
INDEX:SOX.X |
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Dow
Jones Utilities |
INDEX:UTIL |
| Oil
Service Sector Index |
INDEX:OSX.X |
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Dow
Jones Transports |
INDEX:TRAN |
| Nasdaq
Biotechnology Index |
INDEX:NBI.X |
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CBOE Oil
Index |
INDEX:OIX.X |
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Biotechnology Index |
INDEX:BTK.X |
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Thestreet.com Internet Index |
INDEX:DOT.X |
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