Indian Markets: Adding NSE Stock and Futures Symbols in PairTrade Finder® Using Interactive Brokers
For those of you who are using PairTrade Finder PRO integrated with an Interactive Brokers´ Indian Share Dealing Account for real-time data and semi autotrading, please use the following symbols syntax for retrieving NSE Stocks and Futures. FIRST, ensure you have the following settings when Creating a Group:
Then, for adding...
Stocks:
Example: Symbol "HDFC"
Futures and Index Futures:
Example: Symbol "EURINR"
EURINR18OCTFUT:FUT@NSE|NSE
You have to specify full symbol name including expiration year/month not just 'EURINR' because Interactive Brokers never tries to find best match and just tells that this name is ambiguous.
Make sure you have real-time data fro NSE Stocks and Futures enabled in your Interactive Brokers' acconut.
Here is another Futures example, this time on an index. The BANKNIFTY21MAYFUT:FUT@NSE|NSE See attached screenshot:
Indices:
For example, BANKNIFTY, use:
BANKNIFTY:IND@NSE|NSE
Happy trading!
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