# \[API Request\] Fix the tickers?

**URL:** <https://community.trading212.com/t/api-request-fix-the-tickers/92341>\
**Category:** 💡 Feature suggestions & ideas\
**Created:** [June 16, 2026, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/api-request-fix-the-tickers/92341 "2026-06-16T20:13:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![cablecar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@cablecar](https://community.trading212.com/u/cablecar)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/api-request-fix-the-tickers/92341/1 "2026-06-16T20:13:49Z")

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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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**Author:** ![maxkshaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@maxkshaw](https://community.trading212.com/u/maxkshaw)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 10:00am UTC](https://community.trading212.com/t/api-request-fix-the-tickers/92341/2 "2026-06-18T10:00:59Z")

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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.