---
title: "Instrument logo"
description: "The instrument logo is the small picture next to an instrument: its own logo when Fincanva holds one, otherwise a flag standing for its recorded origin."
canonical_url: "https://fincanva.com/docs/getting-started/instrument-logo"
last_updated: "2026-09-21"
md_url: "https://fincanva.com/docs/getting-started/instrument-logo.md"
---

# Instrument logo

Wherever Fincanva shows an [instrument](/docs/getting-started/instrument) with a small picture — the screener's results table, a strategy's Holdings and Positions, the instrument pickers, and the public screener embed — that picture is the instrument's own logo when Fincanva holds one, and a flag for the instrument's recorded origin when it doesn't.

**Also seen as:** instrument icon, avatar

## What shows when an instrument has no logo?

A flag for the instrument's recorded origin, not for where it happens to be listed: the US flag when the recorded origin is US, a globe when no origin is recorded (or the reference data carries its `GLO` marker for that), and the EU flag for any other recorded origin — today every other origin in the data is European. A US-listed instrument can still show the EU flag if its recorded origin is European. This still resolves for every instrument Fincanva's reference data holds; one that has since dropped out of the reference data entirely shows a letter avatar instead, because there is no record left to read an origin from.

## Where does the picture come from?

From Fincanva's own storage. Both an instrument's own logo and the three flag images are served by the platform itself, so no third party is contacted from the reader's browser to show an instrument's picture.

## Defaults in Fincanva

- Not every instrument has its own logo. Measured 2026-09-19: 5,854 of 38,207 instruments in the reference data do — about 15%.
- Logos are added over time: an instrument showing a flag today can show its own logo later, with nothing else about it changing.
- The same rule decides the picture everywhere it appears — the screener's results table, a strategy's Holdings and Positions, the instrument pickers, and the public screener embed all show the same picture for the same instrument.

## Worked example

Two instruments sit side by side in a screener's Matches table. One is a widely covered US stock, and its Symbol cell shows the company's own logo. The other is a smaller instrument of European origin Fincanva has no logo for, and its Symbol cell shows the EU flag instead. Both cells identify their instrument; only one carries its own picture.