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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 10 June 2006 |
Describes the steps to create a new market in AST.
By default AST comes setup for North American markets. However you can configure AST to use any market. AST may already have the market you want, but it may be disabled. First start by going into the Setup menu and selecting markets. If you see the market you want, but it has a line through it, then click the eraser to enable that market. This is all you need to do.
If you don't see the market you are looking for, press the Add Market button. Enter a short name, such as TSX, for the market in the Market ID field. This can be whatever you like. The next thing we need to do is determine the market key. This is the suffix Yahoo uses for the market. You can lookup the market on this page. You can leave the the Globe Investor suffix blank as it applies to North American markets only. BigCharts suffix is currently not used, so also leave that blank. In market symbol, you should enter Yahoo's ticker symbol for your market index. This is used by some parts of AST that compare stocks vs. the market they are in. There is no good page to look this up on, you have to hunt around the Yahoo Finance website. You can leave it blank if you can't find it.
The last thing you need is a symbol list. This is used for features like reports and pattern search, so it is important. You can usually find this information on the exchange's website. You want to place the symbol list in the share/symbols directory. It should be a text file in the format . You need to create the symbol list before going into the add market screen, otherwise you won't see the file in the dropdown.
If you add a new market, please send me the details so that I can add it to the default setup for other users. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 10 June 2006 )
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