Every spelling, grouped
Measured on broker pages, TradingView broker feeds and live MetaTrader servers. MetaTrader matches symbol names exactly, including case, so USOIL and USOILm are two different symbols on the platform even though they are the same market.
Plain names
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| USOIL USOil | Capital.com, Axi, Purple Trading, IG, FundingPips; FXCM writes USOil |
| XTIUSD | IC Markets (spot), Tickmill, FP Markets, FBS |
| WTI | IC Markets (futures), ThinkMarkets, BlackBull, Deriv, FP Markets (futures) |
| USOUSD | Vantage, Eightcap, FundedNext |
| SpotCrude | Pepperstone, renamed from XTIUSD |
| US.OIL | Admirals |
| USCRUDEOIL | CMC Markets (TradingView) |
| USWTI USWTI247 | Blueberry, plus a 7-day version |
| WTICOUSD | OANDA (TradingView) |
| #USO | AvaTrade |
Cash and account suffixes
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| USOIL.cash | FTMO |
| USOILm USOILr USOILz | Exness Standard, Raw Spread and Zero accounts |
| USOilp | CXM |
| WTICash USOilCash USOIL.CASH | Other MetaTrader servers |
Futures-priced CFDs
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| Crude-F | Pepperstone forward, priced from the front-month future |
| USOIL.F | BlackBull (TradingView) |
| CLOIL CL | Vantage futures (TradingView, MT5) |
Platform formats
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| FX:USOIL CAPITALCOM:USOIL OANDA:WTICOUSD | TradingView broker feeds |
| TVC:USOIL NYMEX:CL1! | TradingView reference: the WTI reference feed and the NYMEX future |
What the underlying market is
WTI (West Texas Intermediate) is the US crude oil benchmark, traded as the NYMEX CL future. Brent, the other benchmark, is a separate market with its own price.
Cash or futures?
Oil CFDs are priced from futures at essentially every broker, even when the name says spot or cash. Pepperstone states that its rolling cash energies, SpotCrude, SpotBrent and NatGas, are priced from the front-month futures contract. "Spot" here means the CFD rolls for you and has no expiry, not that it tracks a physical spot price.
The trap to watch for
USOIL and UKOIL are different oil. USOIL is WTI; UKOIL is Brent. They trade at different prices, so a Brent trade journaled against a WTI chart will look wrong on every fill.
How the RB Trading Pro Journal handles it
The RB Trading Pro Journal reads USOIL, WTI, XTIUSD, USOUSD, SpotCrude, USOIL.cash and the rest as WTI crude, and prices it live from the front-month WTI future, the same source broker oil CFDs are built on. Brent names are read as Brent.
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 USOIL 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.