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A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock or security on a particular stock exchange. Ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters or digits) which provide a shorthand for investors to refer to, purchase, and research securities.
Before 2010, the ticker (trading) symbols for US options typically looked like this: IBMAF. This consisted of a root symbol ('IBM') + month code ('A') + strike price code ('F'). The root symbol is the symbol of the stock on the stock exchange. After this comes the month code, A-L mean January–December calls, M-X mean January–December puts ...
For companies issuing shares on the open market for the first time via an initial public offering, the question becomes, "What's in a ticker symbol?" The answer is: More than you might think. Just ...
The market data for a particular instrument would include the identifier of the instrument and where it was traded such as the ticker symbol and exchange code plus the latest bid and ask price and the time of the last trade. It may also include other information such as volume traded, bid, and offer sizes and static data about the financial ...
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The desk units would set up the ticker symbol code for the desired stock by mechanical means actuating micro switches. The local control box would continuously interrogate each desk unit in sequence and send a request data packet by Dataphone to the local drum memory which would then send return data packets back to the local brokerage office.
Ticker can mean: Ticker tape, the paper strip output by a stock ticker machine; Ticker symbol, codes used to uniquely identify publicly traded companies on a stock market; News ticker, a small screen space on television news dedicated to headlines or minor pieces of news; Ticker, an action film directed by Albert Pyun
Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee was found not guilty of accounting fraud and stock manipulation by a Seoul appeals court on Monday, ... Samsung shares closed down 2.7% following the ruling.