Every spelling, grouped
Measured on broker pages, TradingView broker feeds and live MetaTrader servers. MetaTrader matches symbol names exactly, including case, so GER40 and GER40m are two different symbols on the platform even though they are the same market.
Plain names
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| GER40 | Pepperstone, Capital.com (TradingView), Axi, Eightcap, FP Markets, Fusion Markets, ThinkMarkets, BlackBull, Blueberry, AvaTrade, ACY, Purple Trading, Vantage, FundingPips |
| DE40 | IC Markets, Tickmill, Skilling, Capital.com (MT5) |
| DAX40 | GO Markets (TradingView) |
| DAX | IG (TradingView) |
| GDAXI | Darwinex (TradingView) |
| GERMANY40 GERMANY_40 | FxPro and Admirals; Deriv uses the underscore form |
| DAXEUR DE30EUR | easyMarkets; OANDA on TradingView (OANDA API: DE30_EUR) |
Old "30" names, still the DAX 40
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| GER30 | FXCM (TradingView), FundedNext, Blueberry (legacy) |
| DE30 | FBS |
| GERMAN30 | CMC Markets, described as "Germany 40" |
| DAX30 | The5ers' indices announcement |
| .DE30Cash | RoboForex, renamed .DE40Cash in September 2021 |
Cash CFD suffixes
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| GER40.cash | FTMO |
| GER40Cash | XM |
| .DE40Cash | RoboForex |
| [DAX40] [GER40] | Admirals cash index CFDs (square brackets) |
| GERMANY40-Z | Admirals Zero accounts |
Futures-priced CFDs
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| GER40-F | Pepperstone forward, priced from the front-month future |
| DE40.f DE40.F | BlackBull, described as "Germany 40 Future" |
| GER40FT | Vantage (TradingView) |
| DE40FU | TradeNation rolling future (TradingView) |
| _GER40 | Admirals index futures CFD |
| DE40U6 DE40.U26 | Dated futures CFDs seen on live MT servers (U = September) |
Other suffixes seen on live servers
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| GER40+ | STARTRADER |
| GER30p | CXM |
| [GER40]-T | Admirals MT5 server |
| GER40c DE40.S GER.30 GER_30 DE40.m | Other MetaTrader servers (account or server tags) |
Platform formats
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| PEPPERSTONE:GER40 IC:DE40 FX:GER30 IG:DAX | TradingView: EXCHANGE:SYMBOL, always upper case. FX is FXCM, IC is IC Markets |
| IBDE40 | Interactive Brokers index CFD |
| GER40.I | Saxo index CFD |
| XETR:DAX TVC:DEU40 EUREX:FDAX1! | TradingView reference: the cash index, and the Eurex DAX future |
What the underlying market is
The DAX is Germany's headline stock index, priced in euros and calculated from shares listed in Frankfurt. It grew from 30 to 40 companies in September 2021, which is why so many brokers still carry a "30" in the name. RoboForex, for one, renamed .DE30Cash to .DE40Cash at the time; others never changed theirs.
Cash or futures?
Most DAX CFDs are cash CFDs: they track the cash index, which only prints while the exchange is open, and follow the future outside those hours. A futures-priced CFD such as Pepperstone's GER40-F or BlackBull's DE40.f quotes the futures price instead, so it sits at a different level from the cash CFD even at the same moment. Compare like with like.
The trap to watch for
The number lies. GER30, DE30, DAX30 and GERMAN30 are not a smaller index: at brokers they are the DAX 40 under its pre-2021 name. FundedNext lists GER30, FXCM shows GER30 on TradingView, and CMC Markets shows GERMAN30 with the description "Germany 40".
One exception: outside a broker feed, TVC:DE30 on TradingView is a German 30 year bond series and DJ:DE30 is a Dow Jones Germany Titans index. Only read DE30 as the DAX inside a broker's symbol list.
How the RB Trading Pro Journal handles it
The RB Trading Pro Journal reads every spelling above, from GER40 and DE40.cash to GER30p and PEPPERSTONE:GER40, as one market: the DAX 40. It prices it live at the cash DAX level, so your open GER40 trade shows the same index your broker's cash CFD tracks, whatever your broker calls it.
Trades arrive by hand, by file import, or live from MT4 and MT5 and cTrader, in whatever spelling your broker uses. You never rename a symbol to get a live price or a correct R.
Journal your GER40 trades under any name
Log trades by hand, import a file, or live-sync MetaTrader and cTrader. The Journal recognises your broker's spelling and prices open trades live.
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How this page was built: spellings come from brokers' and prop firms' own help pages and notices, from the broker feeds on TradingView, and from a public dataset of 13,740 symbol names read from 241 live MetaTrader 4 and 5 servers (metatraderVPS/metatrader-broker-symbols, CC BY 4.0). A broker is named only where one of those sources shows it. Brokers rename symbols from time to time, so check your own platform's symbol list if a name here does not match.