Canadian Mutual Funds Symbols

[JackieK88]

I trade with Questrade (Canada), where I can find and see charts for mutual funds. MT is setup with that broker, and normally I would be able to see the same symbols. 

Canadian mutual funds symbols don't show up on MT.

E.g. try MAW104 Canadian Balanced Funds from Mawer. It doesn't show up.

How to set up MT in order to show Canadian mutual fund symbols?

[Jerry Medved]

will check and get back to you shortly.

[Jerry Medved]

sorry for the delay - typed the answer, but forgot to hit the submit button.

their streaming datafeed does not seem to get data on the mutual funds. I checked our code and had to modify to get it to recognize the mutual fund symbol, but even when I did the prices returned were all zero

[JackieK88]

Thanks for looking into this. Is there any solution?

[Jerry Medved]

no, don't see any. I tried looking up via Yahoo, but does not seem that they support it either.

[JackieK88]

You just hit on the correct keyword: Yahoo. Indeed, it supports some Canadian mutual funds but they use a special system.

The BMO Fund GGF31734 is called on Yahoo: 

BMO Tactical Dividend ETF Fund D (0P00012MPY.TO)

And the Mawer Fund MAW104 is called:

Mawer Balanced Fund Class A (0P0000714D.TO)

So you have to dig a bit to find them, but many are there on Yahoo. 

I changed the provider from Questrade to Yahoo, and got them!

Thanks for holding my hand a bit  🙂

 

[Jerry Medved]

NOTE: you will want to use MT symbol format:
0P0000714D:CA

[JackieK88]

Thanks! It works fine, and I can even see charts, which is not offered everywhere for mutual funds.

Keep up the good work!  😉