| The CFI reflects characteristics that are defined when
a financial instrument is issued and remain unchanged during its entire
lifetime. The CFI consists of six alphabetical characters: The first character indicates the highest level of classification (categories).
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The currency code is composed of: the two letters ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code plus the initial of the currency name. Examples: CNY = CN (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for China plus Y (initial for the Yuan) ZAR = ZA (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for South Africa plus Z (initial for the Rand) GBP = GB (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for Great Britain plus P (initial for the pound) Kiwies= NZD, Aussies = AUD, Swissies = CHF,... |
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ISIN identifies an instrument across all markets.
ISIN structure:
Also see ISO 10962 - CFI: Classification of Financial Instruments |
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| YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.ffff example 2003-10-10 11:12:20
YYYY four digit year, Punctuations may be stripped, but ISO recommends to separate
date and time by the letter T - example 20031010T111220 Other time notations are reputed local. See Markus Kuhn's summary and discussion |
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Maintained
by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM, for
Bureau international des Poids et Mesures). *.pdf Brochure Base units (a.k.a. MKS System, for Metre, Kilo, Seconde)
And 22 SI derived units For our American friends still not using international units of measures, their own standard organisation (NIST) has this *.pdf table "General Tables of Units of Measurement " |
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| Futures usually have a ticker in the form: cc01m :: ccm1 ::
ccm01 :: .... Where cc is the commodity code, 01 or 1 one or two digits for the year, m the month code (plus any prefix or suffix data feed use for continuous contracts, backward adjusted continuous,...) RTH are the primary month codes. ETH codes, secondary, are used for whatever reason when the primary code is not sufficient. Example: RTH could be used for the pit session (RTH Real Trade Hours, vs. ETH Electronic Trade Hours) or for contracts more than 9 years forward when the usual syntax only use 1 digit for the year of the contract. |
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![]() | With thanks to the EOS - Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control
here are some references to international norms for securities and related fiancial instruments: The document is dated 2001-04-30 but provides an extensive list of standards. Standards and drafts of: | Defines: ISIN :: CFI :: MIC :: ISCR et al. |
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The same site provides what we always wanted to know but were afraid to ask, a table of the stage code of the international system: International harmonized stage code systemThanks guys. |
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