GBP/USD on TradingView: Which Symbol to Use

GBP/USD basics

GBP/USD shows how many US dollars one British pound buys. One pip is 0.0001, worth $10 on a standard lot of 100,000 pounds. It’s most active during the London session and the London–New York overlap. The nickname “cable” comes from the transatlantic telegraph cable once used to send the rate between London and New York.

Why don’t these prices match?

• Spot forex has no single exchange. Every bank, broker and data provider quotes its own bid and ask, so FX:GBPUSD, OANDA:GBPUSD and your broker’s feed can differ by a fraction of a pip, especially around news and the daily rollover.
• Futures (like 6B1!) trade on CME for a future date. Their price includes the interest-rate difference between the two currencies until expiry, so they sit slightly away from spot and converge as expiry nears.

What does “1!” mean on TradingView?

A ticker ending in 1! is TradingView’s continuous contract: it always shows the front futures month and switches when it rolls over. 2! is the next month after that. Each contract has a different price, so the chart can jump at the roll.

Trading hours

Spot forex trades from 5:00 pm New York time on Sunday to 5:00 pm on Friday. CME currency futures trade almost the same hours with a one-hour daily break from 4:00 to 5:00 pm Central Time. See the live forex market hours clock for the sessions in your time zone.

Which one should you use?

For spot trading, use your broker’s GBPUSD feed if available, or FX:GBPUSD / OANDA:GBPUSD. For futures, 6B1!.

Work out pip value and position size with the pip calculator and position size calculator, or tick values with the futures calculator.

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