Ticker Symbols

Our site contains over 30,000 ticker symbols for stocks, indexes, market breadth indicators, economic indicators, commodities, and more. Understanding how these ticker symbols are named and organized makes navigating and taking full advantage of our website easier.

• Ticker Symbol Conventions. These general guidelines we use for naming our ticker symbols, including suffixes to indicate the exchange and prefixes to indicate the type of asset, may help you to find the ticker symbol you need.

• How to Find a Ticker Symbol. Step-by-step instructions for searching and finding a specific ticker symbol on our site.

• Using the Index Catalog. Step-by-step instructions for using our Index Catalog to learn more about specific indexes and market indicators available on our site.

• Ratio and Difference Symbols. These compound symbols can be used for comparing the relative performance of two ticker symbols.

• Pseudo-Symbols. These powerful specialty "symbols" can help you make your charts and ChartStyles more flexible and easy to maintain.

• User-Defined Indexes. This feature exclusively for Extra and Pro members allows you to create and chart your own symbols with data you upload.