Symbol or security?

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Course Name: Automated Trading with IBridgePy using Interactive Brokers Platform, Section No: 5, Unit No: 7, Unit type: Exercise



during the video security is used in order(security, quantity, style) but here in the exercise you are using 'symbol'.

could you pls clarify where does it come from?

thanks.

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Hi Gian,

The video mention on the right hand side(Section 5 Unit 1 video at 0:39) that the security object is created by symbol(), symbols() or superSymbols().



This means that

"security" is an object similar to "symbol('AAPL')"



This can be seen in the Section 5 Unit 1 video at 1:46 where the "security" is replaced with "symbol('AAPL')".



The same thing is to be done in the exercise you mentioned in Section 5 Unit 7.