[API Request] Fix the tickers?

💡 Feature suggestions & ideas
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Hi, it’s not entirely clear to me why tickers are formatted like this, so it seems like a bug.

American stock tickers look like this: “MCRB_US_EQ”.
British stocks look like this: “BPl_EQ”.

To be explicit about the difference, US stocks are distinguished by _US_, and British stocks by a lowercase “l” appended to the end of the symbol.

Why are these different? Is it a bug or intentional? And how can I be confident that I can programmatically identify the nation or exchange a symbol was traded on?

Why can’t we have a consistent system? perhaps BP_L_EQ instead of BPl_EQ?

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As far as I am aware, this is not a bug - it’s just how the assets are uniquely identified in the T212 database. If T212 is inheriting this bizarre naming convention from its custody partner (IBKR), that makes some sense. However, if not, I don’t know T212 doesn’t just use somethign like symbol:exchange for absolute clarity, e.g. MCRB:NASDAQ or BP:LSE - this would also be very easy to parse and split programmatically.