Talk:Ticker symbol

3M
Concerning the following passage:

For instance, more people knew the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company by the way its three-letter ticker ("MMM") is pronounced on Wall Street, "3M," leading to an official name change in 2002.'

The 3M corporate history pages show that "3M" or "Three M" was a name used by the company from the earliest days; see the logos at:

http://www.3m.com/about3m/history/1900.jhtml http://www.3m.com/about3m/history/1910.jhtml http://www.3m.com/about3m/history/1920.jhtml http://www.3m.com/about3m/history/1930.jhtml

But 3M was not publicly traded until 1946, per:

http://www.3m.com/about3m/history/1940.jhtml

Thus, the common name 3M preceded the stock ticker symbol MMM.


 * I removed the influence section because it lacks plausibility, unless the writer can provide sources.Jezzerk 15:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Move to Ticker symbol
This article could be moved to Ticker symbol. Non-stock securities and derivatives can have ticker symbols, notably registered mutual funds, ETFs, and some options. Exchanges may also assign tickers to indices.
 * Then some explanation of the word 'ticker' needs to be given.119.142.152.8 (talk) 03:10, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Scope
I added a geographic scope tag in the hopes someone can add material on the use of tickers on non-US markets. For instance, did the history of tickers on the LSE parallel their development on the NYSE? What characters/symbols in used in Japan, Russia, or other countries where non-Latin alphabets are prevalent? - choster 14:31, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with the sentiment. This article is very biased toward NYSE symbology.  For example, Tokyo stocks are purely numeric, the codes mentioned only apply to NYSE.  Can we move that information to the existing NYSE page?  --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 19:52, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * I haven't traded overseas, but this article applies to the US NASDAQ and AMEX, not just the NYSE. Art LaPella 21:03, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Technical details needed
Anybody has information on technical details, such as accepted characters for ticker symbols, minimum length (should be 1, since there are some that are 1 character) and maximum length? Pointing to a standard would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deragon (talk • contribs) 18:20, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

what about stock symbols like MARKET + ":" + stock Identifier like "NYSE:WM" or "NASDAQ:BDE" and so on
you can search in google and many stock market websites with this id: "BME:IBE" for iberdrola in spain market ibex35. Do these ids follow some kind of regulation or standard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.126.240.2 (talk) 06:46, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Confusion
Something could be said about trader confusion with examples such as: Or are these cases related to names rather than symbols? --Error (talk) 09:10, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Elon Musk tweeted "Use Signal" and Signal Advance's (SIGL) price surged.
 * In the GameStop short squeeze, AMC Theaters (AMC) surged but also AMC Networks (AMCX). GameStop (GME) surged but also GME Resources (GME in Australia).

Edit 1077577960
In edit 1077577960 I also removed "basically" in the second sentence. Just a quick note as I accidentally tagged it as a minor edit because I also made the capital "T" a lowercase. Urban Versis 32 (talk) 01:38, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Wrong link?
I think the "shares" in the first line of the article direct you to the wrong kind of "stocks"...

This, to be exact: Stocks. Shouldn't it be Stock or Share (finance)? 83.23.8.254 (talk) 11:07, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

jakirsk 2409:40E1:B:B28E:8000:0:0:0 (talk) 16:59, 8 July 2024 (UTC)