Ah yes. Thank you guys. The currency part makes sense now. Most of the guides regarding symbology didn't deal much with international futures, so I got confused with US symbology, which left out the currency tail end quote.
And thank you with regards to the FTSE. I will indeed follow up on that. Cheers. --- In [email protected], "edwol53" <ed...@...> wrote: > > Hello > > FYI (From an email support tag) > > If you are using instruments denominated in other currencies, you need to add > currency code to the symbol. > > Due to possible ambiguity of SMART routing when same symbol is traded with > multiple currencies, IB plugin now allows to specify CURRENCY in a symbol. > The symbol format is now: SYMBOL-EXCHANGE-TYPE-CURRENCY. > > All symbols that do not have explicit currency specification use USD now > except forex). > > The default currency is USD and it is used when nothing is specified as 4th > part of symbol. > > So for example MSFT gets internally resolved to MSFT-SMART-STK-USD > > OR in this case APH0-SNFE-FUT was resolved to APH0-SNFE-FUT-USD and USD being > the default & such a symbol is not valid. > > > Also you may want to watch the ASX SPI index ie SPI-SNFE-IND-AUD and the XJO > Alias AP-ASX-IND-AUD > > Hope this helps > Cheers > Ed > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "cascade3891" <cascade3891@> wrote: > > > > Aha!! Great ... APH0-SNFE-FUT-AUD works!!! > > Thankyou!! > > > > How did you find out? Or are you experienced with the ASX futures? > > Out of all the quotes I tried the key thing I was missing was the little > > "-AUD" on the end ... how silly. > > > > There's no consistency in the quote formats at all. > > > > Is there a proper guide on all quote formats? Besides the ones I've > > mentioned already ... which are half finished. > > > > Thank you all. > > > > --- In [email protected], "edwol53" <edwol@> wrote: > > > > > > Hello > > > > > > Try APH0-SNFE-FUT-AUD > > > for SPI MAR 10 Futures > > > > > > cheers > > > Ed > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "cascade3891" <cascade3891@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Okay so these symbols from IB --> AmiBroker are giving me a pain. > > > > So I've looked here with no luck: http://amibroker.com/guide/h_ib.html > > > > Here also with no luck: > > > > http://www.investcoach.com/background/amibroker-ib-symbols.html > > > > > > > > I've tried all the following and they don't work: > > > > APH0-SNFE-FUT > > > > SPI MAR10 10-SNFE-FUT > > > > SPI-201003-SNFE-FUT > > > > SPIH0-SNFE-FUT > > > > SPIH10-SNFE-FUT > > > > > > > > Anyone know what the symbol is in AB to get the S&P/ASX200 Futures > > > > Contract up for March10?? Does AB even support Aussie Futures?? > > > > > > > > Why oh why is this such a pain ... it should be simple ... > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > >
