Why does AMP use 'EP' instead of 'ES' for emini S&P symbol?

NexusFi · 2017-03-05T23:19:44-05:00

I was watching videos from AMP on youtube, they were showing the MT5 platform...and I noticed the contract names for emini S&P500 were all 'EP' and not 'ES'. I download and installed AMP's MT5 just to check, and sure enough, the contracts are EP and not ES. Why is that? Is it because it was a demo account? If so, why weren't any other contracts differently named? Is it the CQG data feed? This video is an example: (I have it starting at 0:35). Thanks. fw

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Why does AMP use 'EP' instead of 'ES' for emini S&P symbol?

March 5th, 2017, 11:19 PM

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mattz

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I think that this is how they wrote the protocol back in the day. CQG was first a charting application only, and this is how the mapping worked. Later trading came, and they just kept it as such. I think symbols should be universal, but I guess fixing
a whole protocol after you have so many users is a headache+.

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