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SID using Exchange Ticker (symbol) for Indian securities in Research
Sankar Krishnan
posted Jul 2, 2019

Disclaimer: New user on quantopian, so apologies in advance if this is too obvious.

I am trying to get the SIDs for certain Indian securities in Research by referencing their symbols (which are the exchange codes).

An example of the code I am using:

symbols('500820').sid

Here, 500820 is the exchange ticker for a company called Asian Paints.

However, this snippet returns the following error: 'NoSuchSymbols: Failed to find securities matching ['500820']'

From the output of a previous code I had written, I know that the SID for this particular security is 1218474845753922. When I use this in the snippet instead - symbols(1218474845753922).sid, I get the desired output.

Am I missing something?

Note: I remember having done a similar exercise in the past using exchange tickers and got the desired results, so has something changed?

2 responses
Dan Whitnable
Jul 2, 2019

For US securities the symbols method accepts either an alpha ticker (eg symbols('IBM')) or a numeric SID (eg symbols(3766)). However, for non-US securities only the later method is implemented. Indian securities can only be referenced by their SID which is why the following generates an error.

symbols('500820').sid  
NoSuchSymbols: Failed to find securities matching ['500820']

For a more in depth explanation of this please see this post https://www.quantopian.com/posts/identifying-the-ticker-symbols-for-global-equity-indian-market .

Hope that helps.

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Sankar Krishnan
Jul 3, 2019

This was helpful. Thanks, Dan.

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