Every spelling, grouped
Measured on broker pages, TradingView broker feeds and live MetaTrader servers. MetaTrader matches symbol names exactly, including case, so US500 and US500m are two different symbols on the platform even though they are the same market.
Plain names
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| US500 | Pepperstone, IC Markets, Capital.com (MT5), Axi, Tickmill, FP Markets, FBS, BlackBull, Purple Trading, Fusion Markets |
| SPX500 | FXCM, FOREX.com, ThinkMarkets, AvaTrade, Eightcap, CMC Markets, FundedNext, FundingPips |
| SP500 | Vantage, Blueberry, ACY, Darwinex |
| SPTRD | IG (TradingView) |
| US_SP_500 | Deriv (TradingView) |
| [SP500] [USA500] | Admirals cash index CFDs |
| SPXUSD SPX500USD | IC Markets MT4 (legacy); OANDA on TradingView |
Cash CFD suffixes
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| US500.cash | FTMO |
| US500Cash | XM |
| .US500Cash | RoboForex |
| SPX500.cash US500.CASH | Other MetaTrader servers |
Account and server suffixes
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| SP500+ | STARTRADER |
| [USA500]-T | Admirals MT5 server |
| SPX247 | ThinkMarkets continuous version (TradingView) |
| SPXm US500c SP500.s | Other MetaTrader servers |
Futures-priced CFDs
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| US500-F | Pepperstone forward, priced from the front-month future |
| US500.F | BlackBull (TradingView) |
| ES | Capital.com futures (TradingView) |
| US500U6 #US500_U26 US500.U26 | Dated futures CFDs seen on live MT servers |
Platform formats
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| FOREXCOM:SPX500 BLACKBULL:US500 OANDA:SPX500USD | TradingView broker feeds |
| IBUS500 | Interactive Brokers index CFD |
| US500.I | Saxo index CFD |
| SP:SPX CME_MINI:ES1! CME_MINI:MES1! | TradingView reference: the cash index, the E-mini and the Micro future |
What the underlying market is
Every name above tracks the S&P 500 index (SPX), the broad US large-cap benchmark. Its exchange-traded futures are CME Group's ES (E-mini) and MES (Micro).
Cash or futures?
A cash US500 CFD tracks the cash S&P 500 while the US market is open. The cash index does not print out of hours, so the CFD then moves with the ES future. A futures-priced CFD quotes the futures level all day, and that level is not the same as the cash index.
How the RB Trading Pro Journal handles it
The RB Trading Pro Journal reads US500, SPX500, SP500, [SP500], US500.cash and every other spelling here as the S&P 500. A cash CFD is priced live at the cash S&P 500 level, and outside US exchange hours that level keeps moving with the ES future, as your broker's CFD does. A futures CFD such as US500-F reads the futures price directly.
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 US500 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.