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Making sense of tickers

  • 16-06-2014 5:37pm
    #1
    FURET
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭


    This might seem a basic question to many of you but the answer's unclear to me. RE: the following tickers as shown on the Saxo e-trader:
    • VUSA:xams
    • VUSA:xlon
    • VUSA:xswx

    The ETF is clear (VUSA) - but what does the bit after the colon indicate? I'm guessing it's the exchange, so,

    Amsterdam, London, and what's the third one?

    Furthermore, would all stocks available on the Amsterdam exchange end in :xams, or is that just the Saxo convention for naming exchanges?

    Finally, how do I know the currency that is used to buy the exchange? For example, is :xams automatically euros and :xlon automatically pounds sterling?

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    neil.p.b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭neil.p.b


    FURET wrote: »
    This might seem a basic question to many of you but the answer's unclear to me. RE: the following tickers as shown on the Saxo e-trader:
    • VUSA:xams
    • VUSA:xlon
    • VUSA:xswx

    The ETF is clear (VUSA) - but what does the bit after the colon indicate? I'm guessing it's the exchange, so,

    Amsterdam, London, and what's the third one?

    Furthermore, would all stocks available on the Amsterdam exchange end in :xams, or is that just the Saxo convention for naming exchanges?

    Finally, how do I know the currency that is used to buy the exchange? For example, is :xams automatically euros and :xlon automatically pounds sterling?

    Thanks!

    SWX is the swiss exchange.

    Yes. Though they are usually shortened, so london for example, typically end in .l, though if u ended the ticker of an equity/etf/etc with .xlon it would still be valid

    Exchanges will quote in the currency of their country.


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