NASDAQ at one point wanted to have "special characters" e.g. *()/ etc in ticker names too.
EVERYONE said it was a bad idea but they kept pushing it. Repeatedly.
Eventually, smarter heads prevailed and they got rid of the idea.
EVERYONE said it was a bad idea but they kept pushing it. Repeatedly.
Eventually, smarter heads prevailed and they got rid of the idea.
NYSE (really the access stack that both NYSE and AMEX ran on; the name escapes me since it died back in I think ‘08) has for a long time included a completely separate field in their protocols to indicate classification (preferred, warrants, classes, when issued, etc), but CTCI just jammed it into the symbol field.