anyone know the stock code for a barrel of oil?

Tweak_four17 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-12-2010, 01:51 AM

I'd like to add a barrel of oil to my stock tab in manilla 2.5 but can't find it..I'm a stock market moron lol. Closest I can find is a stock for crude, but its only 20 some dollars and oil is at 70 something a barrel..?

**austin420** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-12-2010, 02:00 AM

petroleum is a commodity, not a stock. i dont know if yahoo finance will check for it as it is on the nymex.

Tweak_four17 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-12-2010, 02:06 AM

hmmm, that's no good...

**imnuts** · #4 (**permalink**) 02-12-2010, 02:24 AM

Try this: CLH10.NYM

**austin420** · #5 (**permalink**) 02-12-2010, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by imnuts

Try this: CLH10.NYM

very nice. your the man!

nayr1482 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-12-2010, 08:59 AM

this just seems to be crude oil for the 10th, if you change the 10 to an 11 you get the 11th, etc...

anyone know how to just get todays crude oil price ???

goalkeepr · #7 (**permalink**) 02-12-2010, 10:26 AM

There is no "today's price". It's a futures market. "CL" means Crude Oil, "H" means March, and "10" means 2010.

So CL.H10 means March 2010 delivery. Because it's a finite commodity with a specific delivery date, it's not traded like a stock, and there's no symbol per se.

When you hear the price of oil quoted on TV, they're quoting the price of oil that is to be delivered next month - which in this case is CL.H10.

http://quotes.ino.com/exchanges/?r=NYMEX_CL

texasez · #8 (**permalink**) 02-12-2010, 10:15 PM

USO will give you the general trend of crude oil but not the exact price. It is an etf for crude oil. I doubt if yahoo finance will give you a commodity quote. Commodity info is much harder to find than stock quote but they are available on the web. Search for free commodity quotes and ou will find some.

Tweak_four17 · #9 (**permalink**) 02-12-2010, 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goalkeepr

There is no "today's price". It's a futures market. "CL" means Crude Oil, "H" means March, and "10" means 2010.

So CL.H10 means March 2010 delivery. Because it's a finite commodity with a specific delivery date, it's not traded like a stock, and there's no symbol per se.

When you hear the price of oil quoted on TV, they're quoting the price of oil that is to be delivered next month - which in this case is CL.H10.

http://quotes.ino.com/exchanges/?r=NYMEX_CL

So is there a code where the H becomes the next month automatically or will I just need to change the stock code at the end of every month?

**austin420** · #10 (**permalink**) 02-12-2010, 11:56 PM

h is march. there is a different letter code for each month. almost none of them match the fiirst letter of said month.