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Hi, I use E*Trade as one of my trading brokers. The offer futures trades based on many (not all) of the CME futures. For pretty much all of those the symbols given by E*Trade (based on the core CME symbol) differs from anything found in Metastock. For most, I have found what I believe are matchups. For example. E*Trade/CME symbol for July Canadian Dollar futures is 6CN5 (actually /6CN5). In Metastock, it appears to be CDN25. One future I did not find in MetaStock is the Micro-Gold future - E*Trade/CME core symbol is MGC. So, the July future symbol is MGCN5 in E*Trade. Another was Micro WTI Crude - E*Trade/CME symbol is MCL. Can anyone help me determine what would be the mactchup in Metastock? Thanks in advance! Ken Edited by user Tuesday, June 24, 2025 8:19:20 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: BoldTrader  Hi, I use E*Trade as one of my trading brokers. The offer futures trades based on many (not all) of the CME futures. For pretty much all of those the symbols given by E*Trade (based on the core CME symbol) differs from anything found in Metastock. For most, I have found what I believe are matchups. For example. E*Trade/CME symbol for July Canadian Dollar futures is 6CN5 (actually /6CN5). In Metastock, it appears to be CDN25. One future I did not find in MetaStock is the Micro-Gold future - E*Trade/CME core symbol is MGC. So, the July future symbol is MGCN5 in E*Trade. Another was Micro WTI Crude - E*Trade/CME symbol is MCL. Can anyone help me determine what would be the mactchup in Metastock? Thanks in advance! Ken
Hello, MGC appears to be the correct base instrument code. However, July does not appear to be a valid contract month. Based on what I am seeing, valid month codes are: Feb Apr Jun Aug Oct Dec They also appear to be using a 2-digit year for the year portion of the Future symbol. For example, June 2025 Micro Gold should be: MGCM25 August 2025 Micro Gold should be: MGCQ25
Micro WRI Crude appears to have MWCL for the base instrument code.
They also appear to be using a 2-digit year for the year portion of the Future symbol. For example, August 2025 Micro WTI Crude should be: MWCLQ25 September 2025 Micro WTI Crude should be: MWCLU25
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Ah, Thank you! The issue actually appears to be that I cannot find them in a search. I was trying to add all the futures contracts I follow into a "Custom Online Data list" but could not find a few using either the based symbol (such as MGC) or even "Gold" as part of the name. I did figure out that some/most of the contracts did have variations to their symbols versus CME/E*Trade (such as 25 for the year versus just 5). I found many via the search function but not all. However, when I type in the MGC options, the CL options, and the Micro CL they do show up and chart (although no name appears in the list with the symbol). Thank you!
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