syminfo

How do you place a stop one tick under the low, whatever the symbol? Read syminfo.mintick. The syminfo.* values describe the symbol: its name, what kind of market it is, its tick and what a point of price is worth.

//@version=6
indicator("A tick under the low", overlay = true)
stop = low - syminfo.mintick // one tick below the bar, on any symbol
plot(stop, "Stop", color.red, style = plot.style_circles)
if barstate.islast
    label.new(bar_index, high, syminfo.ticker + " " + str.tostring(close, format.mintick))

Each value is fixed for the run. It describes the chart's symbol, or inside request.security the requested one, while syminfo.main_tickerid stays the chart's. A symbol is written as the terminal writes it, such as BTC-USD, binance:BTC/USDT, AAPL or ES=F, not always in TradingView's EXCHANGE:SYMBOL form. A company's figures and analysts' ratings come from no feed here, so they read na or "".

syminfo.basecurrency

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.basecurrency

The currency a pair counts in units: "BTC" in BTC-USD, "EUR" in EUR/USD. Empty for a share, a fund or a future.

syminfo.cadence

AmenoScript only

simple string syminfo.cadence

How often the series has a new value, by the Data Catalogue: "1D", "1M", "1Q". Empty for a market, whose bars are the size the chart asks for.

syminfo.cftc_code

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.cftc_code

The code the CFTC files the symbol's market under in its Commitments of Traders report, on a continuous future's chart such as ES=F. na on any other chart.

It is TradingView's code for the same market.

syminfo.currency

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.currency

The currency prices are quoted in: "USDT" on binance:BTC/USDT, "USD" on EUR/USD.

Anything that isn't a crypto or forex pair reads "USD", a share listed outside the US included.

syminfo.description

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.description

The symbol's name, such as "Apple Inc", or the symbol itself where no name is known.

syminfo.isintraday

Pine v6No effect here

simple bool syminfo.isintraday

Always false here. To test the chart's timeframe, read timeframe.isintraday.

syminfo.lag

AmenoScript only

simple int syminfo.lag

The seconds from the end of a value's period to when it was published, by the Data Catalogue: FRED:CPIAUCSL reads 3,888,000, 45 days. 0 for a market, whose bars are public as they close.

It is the catalogue's figure for the series, not each value's own date.

syminfo.main_tickerid

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.main_tickerid

The chart's symbol, even inside request.security, where syminfo.tickerid is the requested one.

syminfo.mincontract

Pine v6

simple float syminfo.mincontract

The smallest size the chart's symbol trades in, where the terminal knows it: 0.000001 on COINBASE:BTCUSD. Elsewhere it reads 1.

A strategy sizes in steps of it where it's known. Where it isn't, a share, a fund, a future or a forex pair sizes in whole units, and anything else in steps of 0.000001, whatever this reads.

syminfo.minmove

Pine v6

simple int syminfo.minmove

The tick's numerator: syminfo.mintick is syminfo.minmove / syminfo.pricescale, so ES=F, with its 0.25 tick, reads 25 over 100.

syminfo.mintick

Pine v6

simple float syminfo.mintick

The symbol's tick, the smallest step its price moves in: 0.25 on ES=F, 0.01 on most shares.

Where the terminal holds TradingView's tick for the symbol, it is that one. Elsewhere it is worked out from the decimals of the run's last 200 closes, at least two, and the run warns, since an old bar then reads a tick taken from later prices. A leak-safe run works it out from its first bar instead. math.round_to_mintick and format.mintick read it, and every strategy fill lands on it.

syminfo.minvolume

Pine v6No effect here

simple float syminfo.minvolume

Always 1 here.

syminfo.period

Pine v6No effect here

simple string syminfo.period

Always "D" here, whatever the chart's timeframe. Read timeframe.period for that.

syminfo.pointvalue

Pine v6

simple float syminfo.pointvalue

What one point of price is worth in money: 50 on ES=F, so a move of 1.00 on one contract makes $50. 1 on anything but a listed future the terminal knows.

A strategy's sizes, margin and profit all read it.

syminfo.prefix

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.prefix
syminfo.prefix(symbol) → simple string

The exchange part of a symbol, before its colon: "binance" in binance:BTC/USDT, "" in BTC-USD. As a function, the same of the symbol you give.

Parameter	Description
symbol simple string	A symbol, such as "binance:BTC/USDT". Given none, it reads "".

syminfo.pricescale

Pine v6

simple int syminfo.pricescale

The tick's denominator, a power of ten: 100 for a tick of 0.01 or 0.25, 1 for a tick of 5.

syminfo.session

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.session

Always "regular" here.

syminfo.ticker

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.ticker
syminfo.ticker(symbol) → simple string

The symbol without its exchange: "BTC/USDT" in binance:BTC/USDT, and the whole symbol where there is no colon. As a function, the same of the symbol you give.

Parameter	Description
symbol simple string	A symbol, such as "binance:BTC/USDT". Given none, it reads "".

syminfo.tickerid

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.tickerid

The symbol the script runs on, as the terminal writes it: "BTC-USD", "binance:BTC/USDT", "AAPL". Pass it to request.security to read the same symbol on another timeframe.

syminfo.timezone

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.timezone

The exchange's timezone, as an IANA name: "America/New_York" for a US share. A coin, and any symbol whose trading hours the terminal doesn't hold, reads "Etc/UTC".

The date functions read their times in it unless you name a timezone. See timezones.

syminfo.type

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.type

The kind of market: "stock", "fund", "futures", "forex", "crypto", "index" or "economic".

A macro series such as FRED:CPIAUCSL is "economic", and a funding rate, a prediction market, a data pack and a file are each an "index".

syminfo.unit

AmenoScript only

simple string syminfo.unit

What the series' values count, by the Data Catalogue: "USD", "Index", "APR %". Empty where the catalogue doesn't say.

syminfo.volumetype

Pine v6

simple string syminfo.volumetype

Always "base" here.

syminfo.recommendations_*

No effect here

Analysts' ratings of a share. No feed here carries them, so each reads na.

Each is a series int.

Name
syminfo.recommendations_buy
syminfo.recommendations_buy_strong
syminfo.recommendations_date
syminfo.recommendations_hold
syminfo.recommendations_sell
syminfo.recommendations_sell_strong
syminfo.recommendations_total

syminfo.target_price_*

No effect here

Analysts' price targets for a share. No feed here carries them, so each reads na.

Name	Type
syminfo.target_price_average	series float
syminfo.target_price_date	series int
syminfo.target_price_estimates	series float
syminfo.target_price_high	series float
syminfo.target_price_low	series float
syminfo.target_price_median	series float

syminfo.*

No effect here

A company's and a contract's facts, which no feed here carries: a text reads "" and a number na.

Name	Type
syminfo.country	simple string
syminfo.current_contract	simple string
syminfo.employees	simple int
syminfo.expiration_date	simple int
syminfo.industry	simple string
syminfo.isin	simple string
syminfo.root	simple string
syminfo.sector	simple string
syminfo.shareholders	simple int
syminfo.shares_outstanding_float	simple float
syminfo.shares_outstanding_total	simple int