<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:12 PM, puneet goyal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:puneetgoyal08@gmail.com">puneetgoyal08@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I wanted to ask one more thing that what does the 'symbol' refers to?<br></blockquote><div>Sorry about this question, now i know what the symbols are, but still in dilemma what is its relation with<br>According to the defination i found it was as below<br>
"A series of letters, often an abbreviation, that represents a <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Stock">stock</a>, <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Option">option</a>, <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Mutual+Fund">mutual fund</a>, or other <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Security">security</a> that <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Trades">trades</a> on an <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Exchange">exchange</a>. A ticker symbol allows securities to be <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Listed">listed</a> on an exchange's overhead board conveniently and provides a useful reference for <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Traders">traders</a> and <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Investors">investors</a>. <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/NASDAQ">NASDAQ</a> ticker symbols have four letters, while those on the <a href="http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/NYSE">NYSE</a>
have no more than three. Mutual fund ticker symbols sometimes include
numbers. Examples of ticker symbols include F, for Ford, and MSFT, for
Microsoft."<br><br>Regards,<br>Puneet<br>
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