symbol limit

Tips - Living With Symbol Limits

Also See: Q&A: Scanning Multiple Periodicities (see bottom of page)

The symbol limit imposed by any realtime data service refers to the number of symbols that can be "watched" real-time at any one point in time. You can have a much larger universe of stocks defined to Investor/RT but you must take care not to activate more than your symbol limit at any one time. A few rules: