Instruments

In GT, the general term instrument is used because it is a collective term for security, currency pair, derived instrument and non-tradable “security”.

• Security: A security is assigned to an asset class. This allocation determines how the security can be traded.
• Derived instrument: A derived instrument can be traded in GT if the assigned asset class permits this.
• Currency pair: The currency pair cannot be traded in GT. If different currencies are used in portfolios, these are primarily required for the calculation of performance.

Price data

In GT, an instrument makes no sense without price data, whereby price data is a generic term for different price data.

• Price data connector: For most instruments, the price data is loaded via a connector. For a currency pair, the two connectors intraday and historical price data are mandatory.
• Denomination: The price of a fixed-term deposit does not change during the term, so the price corresponds to the denomination. More on this in Securities.
• Historical prices for period: It is also possible that an instrument has no public price data, but the price changes very rarely during the term. In this case, “Historical prices for period” is used. More on this in Securities.
• Derived instrument: In this case, both the intraday and the historical price data are derived from another existing instrument. More on this in Derived instrument.

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Connectors

Certain price data, splits and dividends are obtained from external data sources via connectors. Whether a type of connector is activated when editing an instrument is determined by the selection of the asset class and the stock exchange. The connector types have certain things in common:

• If the data source is changed, the existing data from the previous connector is deleted and read in again.
  • In the case of historical price data and intraday, saving activates the data source for import. The import is performed in the background so that the user interface is not blocked for too long.
  • For dividends and splits, saving creates a background task that is visible in the batch processing monitor.
• Depending on the data source, a URL extension must be entered, which can be determined with varying degrees of difficulty. However, there is a button with help to the left of the input field.

Connector type

For the different types of connectors there are various settings, monitoring options and in some cases corrections can be made to the imported data. The historical price data and splits can also be edited manually. Below is a list where you can find further information about the different types of connectors:

• Intraday price data: You will find a data source for many instruments. This can be monitored with the watchlist view price data feed.
• Historical price data: In GT, historical quote data is used in a variety of ways. In addition to the cross-references mentioned for intraday price data, there are additional monitoring functions for period yield and completeness of historical securities price data. The historical price data can be viewed as a line graph. They can also be edited in the additional area with the Historical prices view
• Dividends: More information can be found under Historical data and Dividend/Split feed.
• Split: More information can be found under Security, Historical data and Dividend/Split feed.

Invisible connectors

For splits, there are invisible connectors that monitor a split calendar on a daily basis. The user cannot make any changes to this type of connector. More on this topic can be found under Historical data.

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