Stock symbols for Gold and Oil prices

Essentially, to add Gold, Silver, or foreign currency to the Stock app on the iPhone you need to put it in the right format.

For example:
To add a new item for Gold in USD, add the following as the stock symbol...
XAUUSD=X

XAU is the symbol for Gold, USD is the symbol for USD.

Others I use are:

Silver - XAGUSD=X
Canadian in USD - CANUSD=X
Euro in USD - EURUSD=X

Also, they can be used in reverse to see the value the other way.

USD in Canadian - USDCAN=x
USD in Euro - USDEUR=x

Hope this helps.

-D

Message was edited by: dvandetta

If you are looking for a ticker symbol representing light sweet crude oil futures, the most frequently quoted per barrel price of oil, use CLJ08.NYM which represents the current contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange for delivery of light sweet crude in April of this year.

You knew this would not be simple, right? CL represents the commodity, 08 the current year, and the J embedded in it represents April. If you want other delivery months, you should instead use the form CLx 08.NYM where the x character is replaced by the following representation for a given month:

F - January
G - February
H - March
J - April
K -May
M - June
N - July
Q - August
U - September
V - October
X - November
Z - December

As we roll on toward 2009, change the trailing indicator from 08 to 09. Hey: nobody said this would be easy.

Today, the April delivery indicator closed at $ 109.85. I have no reason to believe that these structured symbols would not work on the iPhone. They certainly do produce the correct values for the standard Apple stocks widget in OS X.

The two character symbol for gold futures is GX, with February, April, June, August, October and December as the delivery months. All twelve months are valid for delivery of light sweet crude.

You will likely find looking at coffee and cocoa futures somewhat less depressing…

Look up the symbols at Yahoo.com financial section.

Just make a new folder and name it what the powerpoint is. Then export each slide as a picture like a jpeg. Then in iTunes under the pictures tab sync that folder. You will have your presentation in picture form and you can flick through it.

I know i looked everywhere and can' find those, so if someone could help and please post the symbols, it would help save a lot of time.

You are looking for Light Sweet Crude Oil. Or CL8J. It does not work on the iPhone AFAIK. It is not a stock ticker symbol.