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Primitive Elements

Primitive properties are properties of an instrument for which Investor/RT has only the "current" value.

Token

 Description

 AGE  Age of the instrument (in minutes).  How long it has existed in the system.
 ALIAS  Alias Ticker - Used for Dial/Data Downloading (Additional Info)
 ASK  Current Ask
 ASKZ  Ask Size
 ASSETS  Assets (m)
 AVGCL  Average Close
 AVGVOL  20-day Average Volume - Calculated daily by Investor/RT at end of session
 BARNO  Bar number being tested (Trading Signals)
 BARS  Number of bars of historical data on file for the chosen periodicity
 BARSOPEN  Number of bars in position (Trading Signals)
 BAS  Bid - Ask Spread (Ask minus Bid)
 BID  Current Bid
 BIDZ  Bid Size
 BOX  Box Size (Point and Figure)
 CH  Today's Change in Price - Calculated as CL minus PREV
 CNUM  User Custom Number
 COLOR  QuotePage Highlight Color
 CUSTOM  Custom String - Any user-defined character data that can be added as a column to quotepages (Additional Info)
 CYRHI  Year-to-date high
 CYRLO  Year-to-date low
 DAY  Day of Week (0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday .... 6 for Saturday)
 DAYHI  Daily session high price
 DAYLO  Daily session low price
 DAYM  Day of Month
 DAYOP  Daily session open price
 DAYPCT  Elapsed percent of session ( = 0.0 at session open, and = 100.0 at session close)
 DAYS  Days until Expiration for an option or futures contract
 DAYSOPEN  Days in position (Trading Signals)
 DAYVO  Daily session total volume
 DEBT  Long Term Debt (m)
 DELTA  Delta - Greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
 DISP  Instrument Display Format
 DIV  Dividend Amount
 DNTV  Down Tick Volume
 ENTRY  Entry Price (Trading Signals)
 EXCHR  Requested Exchange (Additional Info)
 EXCHT  Exchange of Trade (Additional Info)
 FLAG  Alarm Flags
 GAMMA  Gamma - Greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
 GAP  Gap Open (PREV - OP)
 GL  Dollar gains (loss) in position (Trading Signal)
 GLPCT  Percent gains (loss) in position (Trading Signal)
 HIALARM  High Alarm Level
 HISTEP  High Alarm Step 
 HITS  Number of hits so far that triggered TRUE in the scan
 IEPS  Interim Earnings Per Share
 IEPSLY  Interim Earnings Per Share Last Year
 IV  Intrinsic Value of an option
 IVOLAT  Implied Volatility of an option - (Additional Info)
 IVOLATA  Ask Implied Volatility of an option - (Additional Info)
 IVOLATB  Bid Implied Volatility of an option - (Additional Info)
 LAG  CPU time minus feed time.
 LAMBDA  Lambda - Calculated greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
 LEN  Length of the ticker symbol (for stocks, LEN > 3 implies NASDAQ stock)
 LIAB  Liabilities (m)
 LOALARM  Low Alarm Level
 LOSTEP  Low Alarm Step    eg. SET(LOSTEP, CL*0.03)
 MINOPEN  Minutes in Position (Trading Signals)
 MON  Monitoring Flags
 NAME  Security Name (Additional Info)
 NOW  Time of day (hhmm)
 NUM  Count to be scanned (Number of instruments in source quotepage)
 PCHO  % change from open ( (CL - OP) / OP )
 PCHY  % change from yesterday ( (CL - PREV) / PREV )
 PFO  Portfolio
 POS_COST  Dollar cost of position (Trading Signals)
 POS_SIZE  Size of position (Trading Signals)
 POS_STATE  Backtest state (1=long, 2=short)
 PREFIX  Option Prefix
 PREV  Yesterday's Close
 PSHARES  Preferred Shares
 QP  QuotePage (QP = "myStocks" is true if the issue is in the "myStocks" quotepage) (Additional Info)
 QTAGE  Quote Age - Elapsed time in seconds since last quote or trade
 RHO  Rho - Calculated greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
 SECTYPE  Number code representing Security Type (Stock, Future, Options, etc...)
 SEQ  Sequence Number (row number of instrument being scanned)
 SESSION  Session Number (See Setup:Preferences:Sessions)
 SETTLE  Settlement Price
 SIC  Standard Industry Classification (SIC) Code
 STOP  Stop Price (Trading Signals)
 STRIKE  Strike Price of an option
 THEO  Calculated Theoretical Value of an option - (Additional Info)
 THETA  Theta - Calculated greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
 TICKD  Number of Down Ticks in the current trading session
 TICKER  Ticker Symbol (Additional Info)
 TICKS  Number of ticks (trades) in the current trading session
 TICKU  Number of Up Ticks in the current trading session
 TICKUNITS  Tick Units
 TIME  Backtest Time (hhmm)
 TNC  Trading Note Count
 TVAL  Time Value of an option - Price of the option minus the intrinsic value
 TVOL  Volume of last trade
 ULPRICE  Price of the security underlying the option
 UPTV  UpTick Volume
 USERDATA  User Data Text
 UTICKR  Underlying Ticker
 VALTICK  $Value Tick
 VEGA  Vega - Calculated greek value of an option - (Additional Info)
 VOLALARM  Volume Alarm Level
 VOSTEP  Volume Alarm Step
 XAVGVOL  Times Average Volume (VO / AVGVOL)
 YRCL  Prior Year Close
 YRHI  Yearly High
 YRLO  Yearly Low

[Elements Overview]