What is the symbol format for Canada equity?

[kroeran]

Canadian Equity Symbol Format for Interactive Brokers

Thank you for those hints. Figured it out. The format that works for Toronto TSE with an IB data connection is:

RY|TSE

TD|TSE

ANYTORONTOSTOCKSYMBOL|TSE

TSE of course is Toronto Stock Exchange, not Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Now the issue of bulk loading of symbols..

To get kinetick to read Canadian symbols in bulk, I used

Ninja...File/Utilities/Import Stock Symbol List...
set to Traded on TSE...
set to Currency Canadian Dollar
Pasted a list that follows format C.RY in the Import Stock Symbol list box

you can do this by grabbing a generic TSE stock list somewhere, pasting this into a spreadsheet, then appending before C. with a spreadsheet formula

For IB connection, you would rather back append |TSE to the symbol.

Test with a few symbols before you do a large bulk load. UPON TESTING, THE IMPORT LIST FACILITY WILL NOT READ A "|"

The thing is, using this method populates all the data sources in Instrument Manager, Misc tab, Symbol Map, with the same format. When I do this for IB, its going to overwrite the format for Kinetick.

Ninja staff - Any thoughts on how to construct an import list that would populate each connection uniquely?

PS: the character "|" cannot be read by the list import facility!!

any thoughts?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello kroeran,

The thing is, using this method populates all the data sources in Instrument Manager, Misc tab, Symbol Map, with the same format. When I do this for IB, its going to overwrite the format for Kinetick.

Ninja staff - Any thoughts on how to construct an import list that would populate each connection uniquely?

This is not supported to do by NinjaTrader. The import list can only use one exchange at this time and will import for all connections. But I can submit a feature request to allow you to specific connections with specific exchanges in your behalf.

Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

[kroeran]

the symbol list import facility will not read a "|" needed to load IB Canadian stock ticker list.

any ideas for a work around?

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello kroeran,

Any instruments that require a special setup for the symbol mapping would need to be created individually and would not be able to be mass created with importing a stock symbol list.

I will however, submit a feature request in your behalf to allow for special symbol mapping when importing a stock symbol list.