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Trading symbol

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Trading symbol

Trading symbol
On a ticker, an abbreviation or other representation of a stock, ETF, index, or anything else that trades on an exchange. Trading symbols appear next to quotes to indicate the investment vehicles to which the quotes refer. A trading symbol may also refer to a sign indicating that the quote has a special situation attached to it; for example, a symbol may show that a company being traded is ex-dividend. Trading symbols are usually between one and four letters long.

Trading symbol. All companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), or the NASDAQ Stock Market are represented by a unique combination of one to five letters of the alphabet.

Some, but not all, trading symbols are easily associated with their companies, such as GE for General Electric or YHOO for Yahoo!.

Sometimes, the exchange trading symbol varies slightly from the way the company is designated on the ticker.



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