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StockTickr Support for Non-Equities (Futures, Options, etc)
StockTickr now has beta support for non-equities trades in the journal. Trades for non-equities are treated exactly the same as regular equities trades with the following exceptions:
- Charts are not generated for non-equities trades (you will be able to upload your own chart soon, however)
- Intraday data is not captured for use in the Stop Analysis Center
Enable Your Account for Non-Equities Trades
By default your account is not enabled for non-equities trades. To enable it, go to your profile and change the "Non-Equity Enabled" option to Yes.
Adding Non-Equities Trades Into the Journal
Once your account is non-equity enabled, you are able to add any symbol you'd like into the journal. No symbol verification is done - if the symbol cannot be matched to an equity, the non-equity form appears:
Note that there are two additional fields on the non-equity form: Description and Multiplier (aka magnifier).
The Description field is for your record keeping purposes only. You can add a different description for each trade if you'd like.
The Multiplier field is an important one. Most futures contracts have a multiplier or magnifier that inflates the value of the contract to add leverage. The StockTickr Trading Journal uses this field in conjunction with the price, stop, and shares field to determine the actual risk for this particular trade.
The first time you enter a trade for a particular instrument, you'll need to enter the multiplier. For subsequent trades, StockTickr will remember the multiplier and will populate that field automatically.
Non-Equity Prices
There is no data feed for non-equities at this point in StockTickr. This could change in the future.
When you enter a trade for a particular instrument, StockTickr checks your journal for previous trades in the same instrument. If it finds any, it uses the most recent open price for a trade with the same symbol as the one you're entering.
Plugin Support
Support for non-equities trades is included in the Interactive Brokers plugin. When non-equity trades are encountered, a multiplier field appears in the plugin for each trade. It is auto-populated from your previous trades in the journal with the same symbol.
