Commodity symbols:
The majority of the time you’ll be reading from tables that contain at three letter code for example FCF. FC stands for Feeder Cattle the last F stand for the month that the contact expires.
Here are the standard symbols used for each month by most exchanges:
F – January
G - February
H – March
J - April
K – may
M – June
N – July
Q – August
U – September
V – October
X – November
Z – December
Often times you will see commodities listed in the month/year/commodity/exchange format
Commodity exchanges are known by different codes below you’ll find a list of the various codes in the exchanges:
CBOT Chicago Board of trade
CME Chicago Mercantile exchange
COMEX commodities exchange center
CSC coffee, sugar, cocoa exchange
FINEX financial instrument exchange
IMM international money market
NYC New York cotton exchange
NYFE New York futures exchange
NYMEX New York Mercantile exchange
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