Exchange name change
Overview:
Interactive Brokers is completing an effort to update and consolidate exchange names where appropriate. When this effort is complete, the following updates will be in effect:
- GLOBEX and CMECRYPTO will be consolidated to a single exchange, ‘CME’
- ECBOT will be updated to ‘CBOT’
- COMEX listed metals (previously reflected as NYMEX) will be updated to exchange ‘COMEX’
- NYMEX, no change
Given the breadth of products involved, we are migrating in four waves based on underlying products:
| Key | Effective Trade Date | Products |
| Wave 1 | October 30, 2022 | GLOBEX: ZAR, LB, DA, IXE |
| Wave 2 | November 6, 2022 | GLOBEX: EMD, BRE, CHF, SOFR3, E7, NKD CMECRYPTO: BTCEURRR, ETHEURRR, MET |
| Wave 3 | November 13, 2022 | GLOBEX: All remaining products CMECRYPTO: All remaining products ECBOT: ZO, ZR, 2YY, 30Y NYMEX: ALI, QI, QC |
| Wave 4 | December 4, 2022 | ECBOT: All remaining products NYMEX: All remaining "Metal" products |
I am trading via API, how does this impact me?
For API clients the only requirement would be to provide a new exchange name, for example: exchange=”CME”, for existing contracts for the affected exchanges.
Old exchanges names will no longer be available after the change.
More details can be found within our FAQs through the following link: Upcoming Exchange name Changes
Note: If you are using a third party software connected to TWS or IB Gateway and that software does not recognize the new contract definitions, please contact the third party vendor directly.