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| Code | Region | Exchange | ||
| U | US | Special code that matches any US symbol | ||
| C | Canada | Special code that matches any Canadian symbol | ||
| Z | US | Composite feed including the New York and American exchanges | ||
| Q | US | Nasdaq, OTCBB, Pink Sheets and Other OTC | ||
| O | US | OPRA - US Options | ||
| I | US | Non-exchange indexes such as Dow Jones, S&P, Gold | ||
| T | Canada | TSX - Toronto Stock Exchange | ||
| V | Canada | TSX Venture Exchange | ||
| M | Canada | Montreal Exchange | ||
| C | Canada | CNQ | ||
| F | Canada | Canadian Mutual Funds |
Quick Quotes
You can enter up to 20 symbols in the Quick Quotes form. If you wish to restrict a symbol to one exchange, precede it with an exchange code as described above. Symbols can be separated with a space or comma.
When you get a quick quote through the power bar at the top of the page, you can choose US or CA as the default region. No exchange code is necessary for symbols in your default region. To get a quote for a symbol in another region, you must specify an exchange code as described above.
Quote/Trade Data and Format
Bid/Ask sizes
These are the numbers to the side of the bid and ask prices.
This is the number of shares on the bid and ask, in thousands.
Most other services provide this information in "board lots" which is not the same.
For US stocks a board lot (or round lot) is usually 100 shares.
For Canadian stocks the board lot size depends on the previous close price.
If the previous close is under $0.10 a board lot is 1000 shares.
Otherwise if the previous close is under $1.00 a board lot is 500 shares.
Otherwise a board lot is 100 shares.
Trade Markers
The Canadian exchanges provide "Trade Markers" which we display in trade lists.
| A | A trade that was not entered at trade time. | |
| B | A transaction in which delivery of the security will be delayed beyond the normal settlement period.Delayed delivery trades are included in the volume, value, and number of transaction totals but do not affect the open, high, low, last sale, and close prices. | |
| C | Results from an order (e.g. to sell) placed by a PO on behalf of a client for one security which is contingent on the execution of a second order (e.g. to buy) placed by the same client for an offsetting volume of a related security | |
| D | A trade that is settled the next day. Cash trades are included in the volume, value, and transaction totals but do not affect open, high, low, last sale, and close prices. | |
| E | (Oddlot) Quantity of shares is not sufficient to comprise a boardlot. | |
| F | For specific reasons (expiry of rights, redemptions, etc.) all trades in the stock must be settled in cash. In this case, trades will set open, high, low, last prices (as indicated by the trade markers), and are included in the volume, value, transaction totals. These trades do not, however, affect weekly, monthly, or yearly, high and low prices. | |
| G | A transaction for the purpose of executing trades at a volume-weighted average price of the security traded for a continuous period on or during a trading day on the exchange. | |
| H | An issuer with business activity levels that fail to meet the minimum continuous listing requirements of the TSX Venture Exchange, which are referred to in TSX Venture policies as the Tier 2 Tier Maintenance Requirements. Trading activity levels have no bearing on an issuer's designation as an "Inactive Board" for the purposes of TSX Venture Exchange policies. | |
| I | ||
| J | The Capital Pool Company (CPC) program is unique to TSX Venture Exchange and is defined in Policy 2.4 of the Exchange's Corporate Finance Manual. The CPC program permits an IPO to be conducted and an Exchange listing to be achieved by a newly created company that has no assets, other than cash, and has not commenced commercial operations. The CPC then uses this pool of funds to identify and evaluate assets or businesses which, when acquired, qualify the CPC for listing as a regular Tier 1 or Tier 2 Issuer on the Exchange. Should the CPC not complete a Qualifying Transaction within 18 months of its date of listing, it may be suspended from trading or delisted. In consideration of the restrictions on this type of issuer as reflected in Policy 2.4, the Exchange has added an identifier of ".P" to the trading symbols for CPCs to differentiate them from other listed companies | |
| K | ||
| L | ||
| M | All trades executed and settled in other than the regular manner. Special Terms Trades do not affect the open, high, low, and last prices (as indicated by the trade markers). "Special terms" trades are included in the volume, value, transactions totals. | |
| N | ||
| O | A transaction whereby a basket of securities or an index participation unit is transacted at prices achieved through the execution of related exchange-traded derivative instruments, which may include index futures, index options and index participation units in an amount that will correspond to an equivalent market exposure. | |
| P | Used for debentures. Accrued interest will be calculated and added to the price of the trade for settlement purposes. | |
| Q | An explanation from the TSX web site: http://www.tsx.com/en/productsAndServices/tradingProducts/tse/moc/index.html | |
| R | Voting is restricted to a specified portion of the shares held. | |
| S | Results from an order placed by a PO on behalf of a client for execution in the Special Trading Session at the last sale price. | |
| U | ||
| V | Shares belonging to the class containing the fewest votes per share (if the stock is divided into more than 1 class) | |
| X | An internal cross is defined as a cross between two client accounts of a Participating Organization which are managed by a single firm acting as portfolio manager with discretionary authority to manage the investment portfolio granted by each of the clients. |
Nasdaq / OTCBB / Pink Sheets / Other OTC
The differences between Nasdaq and the various OTC quotation services is a common source of confusion. Nasdaq assigns the four (or five) character symbols for all of these in order to avoid conflicts.
There are two main groups of security quotations: Nasdaq and OTC (over-the-counter). Nasdaq listings have the highest listing standards and must meet stringent SEC reporting rules. This includes of course the blue chips such as Microsoft and Cisco. If a company fails to maintain its listing requirements it may be booted off Nasdaq and demoted to OTC.
The rest of the securities are OTC. These are not actually "listings" as they are not traded on any exchange or market. All trades in OTC securities are reported to the NASD and are disseminated by Nasdaq on their Level 1 feed. (There are some foreign OTC securities for which the NASD does not disseminate the trades - just an end of day volume and price summary.) There are several sources of OTC quotations:
OTCBB (OTC Bulletin Board) - Securities quoted on the OTCBB must be current in their SEC reporting obligations. One or more market makers are assigned to each security. The OTCBB disseminates market maker quotes (similar to but not part of Nasdaq Level 2) on the Nasdaq Level 1 feed. If a company fails to maintain current SEC reporting status it is booted off the OTCBB.
Pink Sheets - Securities are quoted on the Pink Sheets if a market maker has registered it there. There are no particular SEC reporting requirements, but quotation of OTC securities on the Pink Sheets is subject to Securites Exchange Act Rule 15c2-11. It is possible for a security to be quoted on both the OTCBB and Pink Sheets. Pink Sheets inside quotes and Level 2 are disseminated on a proprietary Pink Sheets feed that requires a separate Pink Sheets subscription to view.
Other OTC - All remaining OTC securities are "Other" also known as the "Grey market." Because they are not quoted on any quotation service, bid/ask quotes are not available. Foreign companies have a five letter symbol ending with "F" and trades for some of these are not reported.
Stockwatch displays the market when you get a detailed quote. You will see one of "Nasdaq", "OTCBB", "OTC - Pink Sheets", "OTC - Other" or "OTC - Foreign".
You can find more information at http://www.otcbb.com and http://www.pinksheets.com.
Market Depth
These Market Depth services are available:
- Nasdaq Level 2
- OTCBB Market Maker Quotes
- Pink Sheets Level 2
- Toronto Stock Exchange - Depth by Price or Market Book
- TSX Venture Exchange- Depth by Price, Depth by Order, or Market Book
TSX/TSX-V Depth By Price shows the top five bid / ask dollar amounts on the board. The size available (in thousands) at each price, and the number of orders at each price. Special terms orders, such as all-or-nothing, are not included.
TSX-V Depth By Order is also available for the TSX-V only indicating the top 10 individual bid/ask orders, plus price, size and brokerage house. Special terms orders are not included.
TSX/TSX-V Market Book. This shows you every individual order in the trading engine, including special terms orders.
To subscribe to Market Depth options, click "Your Account" at the top of the page, then click "Subscription Options".
Nasdaq Level 2
Market Maker ID's beginning with an asterisk (*) represent the best bid or offer from one of the participating Market Centres.
*Nbbo - National Best Bid/Offer - composite best bid/offer from all Market Centres
*Nsdq - best bid/offer from Nasdaq SuperMontage participants
*Nadf - best bid/offer from National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Alternative Display Facility (ADF) (includes Instinet ECN - mmid INCA)
*Cinc - Cincinnatti Stock Exchange (includes Island ECN, formerly mmid ISLD)
*Pacf - Pacific Stock Exchange (includes Archipelago ECN, formerly mmid ARCA)
*Amex - American Stock Exchange
*Chic - Chicago Stock Exchange
*Phil - Philadelphia Stock Exchange
*Nyse - New York Stock Exchange
*Bost - Boston Stock Exchange
*Ints - International Securities Exchange ECN
If there is a number following the Market Maker ID, it indicates the Quote Type.
1 - Passive Market Maker
3 - Syndicate quote
4 - Pre-syndicate Quote
5 - Penalty quote
6 - MM position deleted
No number indicates a Regular or No Quote
As of 2007, Nasdaq Market Makers have begun quoting stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange. Thus there are Nasdaq Level 2 quotes available for these stocks. In this case, the Level 2 best bid/offer may not match the NY/Amex Level 1 best bid/offer. This is because the Nasdaq Level 2 quote only includes Nasdaq Market Maker quotes. The Level 1 quote for these stocks comes from the exchange and includes all other sources of quotes besides the Nasdaq Market Makers. For Nasdaq listings, the Nasdaq Level 2 best bid/offer is necessarily the same as the Level 1 best bid/offer.
Daily Closes
Download open/high/low/close /change and volume stats for any stock in the USA or Canada. You can get one day at a time, or a whole year at a time, going back as far as September 1986 for the Vancouver, Toronto and Alberta exchanges. US exchanges and the Montreal exchange stats go back to December 1993.
Looking for Today's close prices?
- Select the exchange you want and you'll get today's close price for every stock traded on that exchange.
- Scroll down the data file formats and select the one that works for your computer.
Looking for a One Year Daily Close history for a single stock?
- Enter the stock symbol. If you're not sure of it, go to Locate a Company, see link on main page
- Scan through the date ranges and check the download you want.
- Scroll down the data file formats and select the one that works for your computer.
Short History
Short history data is currently limited to Canadian stocks
- Enter the symbol you require.
- Exchange is shown automatically.
- Note: Report Dates are periodical not pre-scheduled.
Symbol Search
Actively Trading Symbol Lookup This searches the live quote database for symbols in the US or Canada that are currently active.
Company Search
This searches the Participant database for companies that are currently active, defunct, or private. You will have access to individual participants who are or have been involved with the corporations.
Options
Option data is currently limited to Canadian stocks
To view the option chain for an underlying equity, click the "Options" link when you get a detailed quote.
Live Ticker
If you have Internet Explorer and the ticker does not start
properly.
For some users the applet seems to partially download
but does not appear or start properly.
If you are affected by this please try the following:
- IE5: Select IE Menu Tools/Internet Options
- select the General tab
- look at "Temporary Internet Files" - click "Delete Files"
- click "Delete all subscription content"
- click "OK"
Then you are back to the Internet Options dialog,click the "Content" tab, look at "Certificates" and click "Publishers". You will see a list of your trusted publishers.
Look for "Canjex Publishing Ltd" and click it to select. Click "Remove" then click "OK".
Then you are back to the Internet Options dialog - click "OK" -
- Shut down IE - make sure there are no IE windows alive
- Start IE again and bring up the Java Console window
- IE5: Select menu Tools/JavaConsole
Login to Stockwatch and start the ticker in the usual way
The applet will download and you should get a "Security Warning" dialog, select "Always trust content from Canjex Publishing Ltd", click "Yes".
In the lower left of the IE window you should see "Applet initialized" and then "Applet started".
The ticker window should appear and connect to Stockwatch.
If IE hangs or does not start the ticker, do whatever it takes to kill IE and start IE again. Then bring up the Java Console window. Login to Stockwatch and try starting the ticker again. Try this a couple of times if necessary.
If the ticker still will not start, please send the contents of your Java Console to webmaster@stockwatch.com. To do this select all the text in the Java Console window, press Ctrl-C to copy to the clipboard, then start an email and press Ctrl-V to paste the text into the email.
Some people running Netscape may have an "illegal operation"
error when granting permission to the new applet.
This is due to
some sort of corruption in Netscape's user database of certificates.
If you
rename the Netscape file where certificates are stored, you should be able to
run the ticker.
First shut down Netscape.
Look at the directory "\Program
Files\Netscape\users\yourusername".
There is a file called "cert7.db".
Rename it to something like "cert7.db.old" so you can recover it if
necessary.
Then start Netscape again.
Another thing you can try is to
get the latest version of Netscape or re-install the version you are
running.
You might also consider switching to IE
We have found that it
is far more stable and efficient than Netscape for running the ticker.
IF YOUR TICKER CANNOT CONNECT
We have recently added
more ticker servers in order to handle increasing load. This means that your
ticker applet may attempt to connect to an IP address that was not used
before.
If you have a firewall or proxy server, you may need to update its configuration.
The three ticker server machines currently in use are:
ticker1.stockwatch.com ticker2.stockwatch.com ticker3.stockwatch.com
Please access your usual support to determine if your firewall or proxy server needs to be updated.
If your ticker continues to get "cannot connect" errors, please send the contents of your Java Console to webmaster@stockwatch.com and we will confirm what the problem is.
To access your Java Console in Netscape select menu
Communicator/Tools/JavaConsole, or in Internet Explorer select menu
View/JavaConsole.
Then use Ctrl-A to select all the text (or select it all
with the mouse), Ctrl-C to copy the text to the clipboard, then Ctrl-V to paste
it into an email.
In the meantime, you can select to connect to the old ticker servers only - change the setting at the bottom of the ticker launch form.
Note - the applet will launch in a new browser window, which you can minimize to get it out of the way. This is necessary as some browsers will stop the Java applet if you move to a different page - which stops the live updating.
Your PC - If you have any trouble running the ticker please look at the hints below. You must have Netscape version 4 or IE version 4 (or higher), and at least 32 Megabytes of memory in your PC. 64 or 128 Mb is recommended if you intend to watch busy stocks, make use of multiple tickers and/or charts, and keep multiple browser windows active on many different websites.
If you have IE version 5 YOU MUST DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL Microsoft's Virtual Machine component, which is required to run Java applets. If you go to Microsoft's Java site you will find links to the download: http://www.microsoft.com/java/.
Note this may not be necessary - try running the ticker. If it works, you don't need this download.
Connection Difficulties - if the ticker keeps coming up with "Cannot connect" messages, please confirm that if you have a firewall or proxy server it is configured to allow these connections. The applet must be able to connect back to the Stockwatch servers on TCP port number 23 (this is the same port that telnet uses). The ticker may try to connect to a server other than the one it was launched from. We suggest you allow connection back to our entire Class C address range as we use multiple server machines. The IP address range is 207.102.62.1 to 207.102.62.255. If you need to enable by using hostnames, use these:
ticker1.stockwatch.com
ticker2.stockwatch.com
ticker3.stockwatch.com
Please do not ask us how to configure your firewall or proxy server, as we do not know. Contact your usual technical support for this.
Java Security Request- The most recent applets may request permission to access other servers. The browsers' hysterical warning messages make this seem like a really high security risk but it is not. All you will be granting the applet permission to do is connect to a server other than the one it was launched from. We need this capability in order to connect to backup servers if necessary, or in the future to connect to servers for other functions such as chatting. By granting this permission you do so ONLY for this one applet and no others. Please note that the applet has no permission to know anything about you or your computer, including the contents of your files or any of your network resources. There is no risk - we promise not to do anything malicious! The applet will not function if you do not grant this permission.
If you are running Netscape and you have denied the security request, and told Netscape to remember your decision, you will not be able to use the ticker and you will not be asked for security permission again. In this case you must make Netscape forget all about our applet. To do this select menu Communicator/Tools/SecurityInfo, click "Java/Javascript", select "Canjex Publishing" in your list of certificates, and click the "Remove" button. Then start the applet again and this time grant the security request.
If the Java ticker or chart does not start up or connect successfully
- Try clearing your browser's disk cache and reboot. For Netscape
version 4, use Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Cache. There is a button that says
something like "Clear Disk Cache". For Internet Explorer version 3, use menu
View/Options/Navigation and click the button "Clear History". For IE 4, use
menu View/Internet Options/General and click the button "Delete Files". If you
have installed any web accelerating software you may need to disable it.
- If it still doesn't run, enable your Java console and note any error messages
that appear there
- Send an email to the webmaster
webmaster@stockwatch.com and include
- which browser you have (Netscape or IE), its version number (look in Help/About),
- the version number of the Java applet (look in Help/About),
- any Java console messages (NS4-Menu Communicator/Tools/JavaConsole, IE4-Menu View/JavaConsole - note you may need to enable your Java console in your browser's preferences dialog),
- what OS you have (Windows 95 etc) and how much RAM your system has,
- your video resolution in pixels (ControlPanel/Display)
That will help us make it work for you (or suggest what you can do about it).
Available File Formats
ASCII - all the fields we have available
definition line:
{ticker},{date},{exchange},{open},{high},{low},{close},{change},{vol},{trades}
followed
by data: ABM,19960607,A,.26,.28,.23,.26,.00,186100,136
ASCII 2 - another generic format
Date is in the format MM/DD/YY
definition line:
{ticker},{date},{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol}
followed by data:
ABM,06/07/96,.26,.28,.23,.26,186100
Metastock
definition line: {ticker},{date},{high},{low},{close},{vol}
followed
by data: ABM,960607,0.28,0.23,0.26,186100
Metastock with Open
definition line:
{ticker},{date},{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol}
followed by data:
ABM,960607,0.24,0.28,0.23,0.26,186100
Metastock with Open and Open Interest
definition line: {ticker},{date},{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol},{OI}
followed by data: ABM,960607,0.24,0.28,0.23,0.26,186100,0
Windows on Wall Street
This is only useful for downloading by symbol, not by date. WoW is apparently not capable of importing a daily file with multiple symbols.
definition line: {date},{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol}
followed
by data: 960607,0.24,0.28,0.23,0.26,186100
NEW Windows on Wall Street
This is only useful for downloading by symbol, not by date. WoW is apparently not capable of importing a daily file with multiple symbols.
definition line (supressed):
{date},{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol},{openint}
followed by data:
960607,0.24,0.28,0.23,0.26,186100,0
20/20
Calgary is exchange code Z, date format is YYMMDD, exchange is second field. In menu 20/20Datalink/Setup/asciiHLC/import you will need to remove "openint".
definition line:
{ticker},{exchange},{date},{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol}
data:
ABM,Z,960607,.26,.28,.23,.26,186100
Quicken
definition line: {ticker},{date},{close}
followed by data:
ABM,960607,0.26
Quicken 98
definition line: {ticker},{close},{date}
followed by data:
ABM,0.26,12/31/97
Quicken 98 with hi/lo/vol
definition line: {ticker},{close},{date},{high},{low},{vol}
followed
by data: ABM,0.26,12/31/97,0.28,0.23,186100
Trader's Edge
{date} {high} {low} {close} {vol}
950104 32.750 32.750 32.750 0
950105 32.750 32.750 32.750 300
Supercharts
This is only useful for downloading by symbol, not by date.
"open","high","low","close"
New Supercharts Realtime v4-4
This is only useful for downloading by symbol, not by date.
"Date","O","H","L","C","V","OI"
11/24/97,1.850,1.850,1.600,1.600,29500,0
Powertrader
This is only useful for downloading by date, not by symbol.
S VSE ABE 0.640000 0.600000 0.640000 22500 0.600000
Stocktrend
This is only useful for downloading by symbol, not by date
definition line: "{symbol}","","","",""
followed by data:
"YYMMDD",{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol},{oi}
Stockwiz
Volume figures are in hundreds.
definition line:
{ticker},{date},{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol}
followed by data:
ABM,960607,0.24,0.28,0.23,0.26,1861.00
Parity
for daily download:
{ticker},{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol}
for symbol download:
{date MM/DD/YY},{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol}
Pattern Forecaster Plus v2 www.ment.com
for symbol download:
{date YYMMDD},1600,{open},{high},{low},{close},{vol}
Old Fashioned Columnar Format
{ticker},{date},{exchange},{high},{low},{close},{vol}
TD 19960923 T
29.00 28.70 29.00 1125343
Investor Graph Charting
data in format
symbol,yymmdd,open,high,low,close,volume,oi:
ABM,960607,0.24,0.28,0.23,0.26,186100,0
If you have a problem with these formats, or if you have a different one you would like to see, please email webmaster@canada-stockwatch.com.