General Notes

When importing data, PropReports will attempt to "normalize" ticker symbols to make them consistent. This is done in order to:

Match up instrument specifications and pricing information with our market data sources.
Provide a consistent presentation when aggregating trading activity from multiple sources of data.
Facilitate reconciliation versus the clearing firm.

Naming rules:

Each instrument must have a unique ticker symbol
All symbols are UPPERCASE only and have no spaces.
All instrument types other than equities have a unique single-character prefix (see below).
All non-US-traded equities have a unique suffix. Please refer to the following list of exchanges and suffixes.

Equities

Equity symbols do not have a prefix. Use a '/' as a class designation separator and '-P' to indicate preferred stocks.

Name	Yahoo!	NASDAQ IP	Sterling	Lightspeed	Bloomberg	PropReports
Stock Classes
Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class A	BRK-A	BRK.A	BRK/A	BRK.A	BRK/A US	BRK/A
Warrants
BYTE Acquisition Corp	ADK-WT	ADK+	ADK/WS	ADK.WS	ADK/WS US	ADK-WT
Mirant B	MIR-WTB	MIR+B	MIR/WS/B		MIR/WS/B US	MIR-WTB
When-Issued
Post Holdings	POST-WI		POSTw		POSTw US	POST-WI
Warrants When Issued
Kinder Morgan, Inc			KMI/WSw		KMI/WSw US	KMI-WTWI
Restricted Units
Energy Services Acquisition Corp Unit	ESA-U	ESA=	ESA/U	ESA.U	ESAu US	ESA-U
Rights
Oilsands Quest Inc Rights expiring August 15, 2011	BQI-RI	BQI^				BQI-R
When-Issued Rights
Brookfield Office Properties	BPO-RWI		BPOrw	BPOrw		BPO-RWI
Preferred Stock
ABC Bancorp 9.00% Pfd Sec	BHC-P	BHC-	BHCp	BHC'		BHC-P
Alabama Power 5.20% Pfd Stk	ALP-PN	ALP-N	ALPpN	ALP'N		ALP-PN
Senior Note
AT&T Inc. Senior Note 6.375	ATT-CL					ATT-CL
Australian Securities Exchange
Iluka Resources Limited	ALU.AX				ALU AU	ALU.AX
Canadian
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp	BIM.TO		BIM.TO		BIM CN	BIM.TO
Advanced Proteome Therapeutics	APC.V		APC.VN		APC CJ	APC.TV
4Front Ventures Corp	FFNT.CN		FFNT.TC		FFNT.CN	FFNT.CN
Central Fund of Canada Limited Class A	CEF-A.TO					CEF/A.TO
Australian Banc Capital Sec Tru	AUZ-UN.TO					AUZ-UN.TO
Brookfield Office Properties Inc	BPO-PN.TO					BPO-PN.TO
Turquoise Hill Resources LTD RI	TRQ-RT.TO					TRQ-RT.TO
Argent Energy Trust 6.00 PCT DE	AET-DB.TO					AET-DB.TO
Atlantic Power Corp. 6.25 Conv	ATP-DBA.TO					ATP-DBA.TO
Franco-Nevada Corporation Warrants	FNV-WTA					FNV-WTA
London Stock Exchange
Lloyds Banking Group	LLOY.L		LLOY.LN		LLOY LN	LLOY.L
Autonomy Corporation PLC	AU.L		AU/.LN			AU.L

Options

Options begin with a '+' followed by the OSI symbol for the option (Underlyer + Expiration YYMMDD + C or P + strike price). FLEX symbols are also supported.

Name	Yahoo!	Sterling	Instaquote	Bloomberg	PropReports
QQQQ Jul 2010 54.000 Call	QQQQ100717C00054000	QQQQ 100717C54000	QQQQ1710F005400#	QQQQ 07/17/10 C54	+QQQQ100717C00054000
QQQQ Jul 2010 54.000 Put	QQQQ100717P00054000	QQQQ 100717P54000	QQQQ1710R005400#	QQQQ 07/17/10 P54	+QQQQ100717P00054000
JNJ Aug 2012 88.000 Call European					+2JNJ120824C00088000
/EWK20.CME May 2019 3100.000 Call					+EWK20.CME200529C03100000

Indexes

Name	Stricknet	Yahoo!	PropReports
Volatility S&P 500	VIX.XO	^VIX	^VIX

Mutual Funds

All mutual funds start with an '!'.

Name	Yahoo!	PropReports
Vanguard 500 Index Investor	VFINX	!VFINX

F/X Currency Pairs

All pairs begin with an '@' followed by the three-letter (ISO 4217) codes for each of the two currencies (the base currency followed by the counter currency).

Name	Yahoo!	PropReports
EUR/USD	EURUSD=X	@EURUSD

Futures

All futures start with a '/' followed by the root symbol, expiration month code and expiration year and ends with a suffix that represents the Exchange that the contract is traded on. Daily futures include the expiration day after the expiration month (two digits, 0 padded).

Name	Yahoo!	PropReports
Cbot Mini Soybean Futures,Jan-2010	YKF10.CBT	/YKF10.CBT
LME Daily Zinc Futures, Mar-06-2023		/ZSDH0623.LME

CFD

All CFDs start with a '%'.

You can opt to use the underlying symbol directly in PropReports, if you do not need the CFD type designation. This will allow any overnight position to receive the standard closing price for the underlying symbol, if applicable. eg. use AAPL instead of %AAPL if CFD type does not need to be associated with symbol.

Name	PropReports
Apple	%AAPL
UK100 (FTSE 100) CFD	%UK100

Forwards

All forwards start with a '#'.

Bonds

All bonds start with an '&'.

Name	PropReports
US TREASURY N/B 7.125000% 02/15/2023	&US912810EP94

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