Ploutos Help

Supported Markets and Symbols

Understand known markets, custom symbols, and why chart coverage is separate from journal support.

Market labels decide how trades group, filter, and show chart context.

Ploutos tries to recognize common symbols automatically, but it still lets you keep custom markets when the exact instrument is not in the supported list yet.

What Ploutos recognizes today

The current supported market list includes:

  • common futures roots such as MNQ, NQ, MES, ES, MYM, YM, M2K, RTY, MCL, CL, MGC, GC, SI, treasury futures, and major currency futures
  • large US equities and ETFs such as AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, SPY, QQQ, IWM, DIA, TLT, GLD, SLV, IBIT, and BITO
  • major crypto pairs such as BTCUSD, BTCUSDT, ETHUSD, ETHUSDT, SOLUSD, and similar pairs
  • common FX pairs and major indexes such as EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, XAUUSD, SPX, NDX, DJI, and RUT

The list is a recognition layer, not a promise that every venue, exchange suffix, or broker-specific symbol will have perfect chart coverage.

How symbol cleanup works

When Ploutos sees a known symbol, it normalizes the market so the journal can keep related trades together.

Examples:

  • MNQH6, MNQ, or Micro Nasdaq can resolve to MNQ CME
  • ES, ESM6, or S&P 500 futures can resolve to ES CME
  • BTC/USD can resolve to BTCUSD CRYPTO

For futures, Ploutos can recognize many contract suffixes from the product root. That keeps NQH6 and NQM6 from becoming separate markets when the review question is really about NQ.

Custom markets

If Ploutos does not recognize the market, the trade can still be saved.

Custom markets are useful when:

  • your broker exports a symbol that is not in the curated list
  • you trade an instrument Ploutos does not formally support yet
  • you need the journal record now and can clean the market label later

Custom markets still work for notes, strategy, tags, review state, and basic filtering. The trade may not get the same chart preview behavior or point-value handling as a known market.

Why exchange matters

The exchange helps Ploutos tell similar symbols apart.

For example, a stock ticker, a futures root, and an international listing can share confusing symbol shapes. When the broker provides exchange data, Ploutos keeps it. When you type a market manually, adding the exchange can make the record easier to understand later.

Chart coverage is separate

A market can be valid for your journal and still lack a chart preview.

Chart previews depend on compatible market candles for that symbol and trade window. Supported markets have better odds because Ploutos knows how to ask for their market-data symbol. Custom or thinly covered instruments may still show Chart preview unavailable.

That does not mean the trade row is wrong. It means the visual market context was not available for that trade.

When a market looks wrong

Check this order:

  1. Open the trade.
  2. Look at the market field.
  3. Search for the intended market.
  4. Pick the supported suggestion if one exists.
  5. Save the trade.

If a whole CSV import mapped markets badly, fix the import mapping or source file instead of editing every trade one by one.

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