Information window

This window provides some information about corporation:

• Ticker symbol
  the short name, used in ‘Select’ window and with quotation import functions. If you use them, please check if ticker given in this field is the same as used in Teletext service or your ASCII quotation data source
• Full name
  official version of firm name
• Code
  symbol code number
• Address
  corporation address
• Issue
  total number of shares
• Nominal value
• Book value
• Market
  describes on which market the symbol is.
• Continuous quotation mode
  enables continuous trading for this symbol (this enables candlestick charts and manual entry open/high/low/volume controls and candlestick charts), otherwise symbol is traded with price fixing
• Round lot size
  Various instruments are traded with various "trading units" or "blocks". For example you can purchase fractional number of units of mutual fund, but you can not purchase fractional number of shares. Sometimes you have to buy in 10s or 100s lots. AmiBroker now allows you to specify the block size on global and per-symbol level.
  You can define per-symbol round lot size in the Symbol->Information page . The value of zero means that the symbol has no special round lot size and will use "Default round lot size" (global setting) from the Automatic Analysis settings page. If default size is set also to zero it means that fractional number of shares/contracts are allowed.
  
  
• Tick size
  This setting controls the minimum price move of given symbol. You can define it on global and per-symbol level. As with round lot size, you can define per-symbol tick size in the Symbol->Information page (pic. 3). The value of zero instructs AmiBroker to use "default tick size" defined in the Settings page (pic. 1) of Automatic Analysis window. If default tick size is also set to zero it means that there is no minimum price move.
  Note that the tick size setting affects ONLY trades exited by built-in stops and/or ApplyStop(). The backtester assumes that price data follow tick size requirements and it does not change price arrays supplied by the user.
  So specifying tick size makes sense only if you are using built-in stops so exit points are generated at "allowed" price levels instead of calculated ones. For example in Japan - you can not have fractional parts of yen so you should define global ticksize to 1, so built-in stops exit trades at integer levels.
• Margin deposit - explained in Backtesting systems for futures contracts
• Point value - explained in Backtesting systems for futures contracts