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Open Feature request MC-992

Get the underlying symbol Name for a Custom symbol

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hi,
Its there a way for me in powerlanguage to get the actual symbol name of a custom continuous symbol ?
E.g Say i name my custom symbol as "NK near", but the actual underlying symbol is now "NK M2".
If i apply an indicator on "NK near" is there a keyword/function i can call to get "NK M2" ?
thanks
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mc-528 (MC_528)

Last seen online at Aug 17, 2012 - 05:28
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Aug 17, 2012 - 05:28

yes, please can there be a Keyword added called: underlying_symbolname for use when charting a Custom Futures Instrument?
To use another example, for Interactive Broker's Datafeed, if your Custom Symbol was called ES#, then calling the proposed keyword underlying_symbolname on a chart bar dated
1 Aug 2010 would return the underlying symbol name ESU0, whereas calling it on a bar dated
1 Aug 2012 would return the true underlying symbol name ESU2.
Every bar on a Custom Futures chart would have to know, what it's true underlying source of data is.
Thanks for considering.

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