Every spelling, grouped
Measured on broker pages, TradingView broker feeds and live MetaTrader servers. MetaTrader matches symbol names exactly, including case, so XAUUSD and XAUUSDm are two different symbols on the platform even though they are the same market.
Plain names
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| XAUUSD | Pepperstone, Exness, FXCM, OANDA, Eightcap, Tickmill, Fusion Markets, Blueberry, ThinkMarkets, AvaTrade, Axi, ACY, Purple Trading, Saxo, FundedNext, FundingPips |
| GOLD | XM, Admirals, CMC Markets |
| SPOTGOLD | IG (TradingView) |
| XAU_USD GOLD_USD GOLDUSD | Other MetaTrader servers |
Account suffixes
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| XAUUSDm XAUUSDc | Exness Standard and Standard Cent accounts |
| XAUUSDr XAUUSDz | Exness Raw Spread and Zero (some servers; others no suffix) |
| XAUUSDx | HFM |
| GOLD-T | Admirals MT5 server |
| XAUUSD.s XAUUSD.raw XAUUSD.ecn XAUUSDpro | Other MetaTrader servers |
7-day and variant names
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| XAUUSD247 | Blueberry 7-day version (TradingView) |
| XAUUSD247p | CXM |
| XAUCNH XAUSGD XAUTHB | Pepperstone gold priced in other currencies |
Futures-priced CFDs
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| XAUUSD-F | Pepperstone forward, priced from the front-month future |
| GOLD.f GOLD.F | BlackBull |
| GC25 | IC Markets gold future |
| GC.sim | FundingPips synthetic future (Ticks Edition), cash-settled, no expiry |
Platform formats
| Spelling | Where it was seen |
|---|---|
| OANDA:XAUUSD SAXO:XAUUSD PEPPERSTONE:XAUUSD | TradingView broker feeds |
| TVC:GOLD COMEX:GC1! | TradingView reference: the gold reference feed, and the COMEX future |
What the underlying market is
XAU is the ISO currency code for one troy ounce of gold, so XAUUSD reads "gold priced in US dollars", the same way EURUSD reads "euros priced in dollars". Spot gold is what nearly every broker's plain XAUUSD or GOLD tracks. The exchange-traded future is COMEX gold, root GC.
Cash or futures?
Gold futures trade above spot by the cost of carry, so a futures chart such as COMEX:GC1! will not match your broker's XAUUSD. Futures-priced CFDs such as Pepperstone's XAUUSD-F or BlackBull's GOLD.f follow the future instead of spot. If your gold fills look off against a chart, check which of the two you are comparing.
How the RB Trading Pro Journal handles it
The RB Trading Pro Journal reads XAUUSD, GOLD, SPOTGOLD, XAUUSDm and the other spellings here as spot gold. Free data feeds only carry the gold future, so the Journal prices spot from the live futures price adjusted by the spot gap, which it measures against a spot gold quote about every 30 minutes. Your open XAUUSD trade therefore moves with the market every few seconds and sits at the spot level your broker quotes, not the futures level.
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 XAUUSD trades under any name
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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.