# Get financial tickers for commodities using FinancialData?

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 Hi there,I am using FinancialData with great success for stocks, currencies and ETFs. However I am struggling to get prices for commodities (Metals, grains...). Not sure whether this is available as usually traded at Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT-CME) or London Metal Exchange and cannot find their tickers.Thanks for your support, Miguel
 Hi Miguel,This is possible for listed futures.FinancialData will call the same database as Wolfram Alpha does, so the easy "cheat" is to use Wolfram Alpha to discover the exchange and ticker for the commodity you want.For example, to find WTI Crude this query will help:https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=wti+oil+futuresYou'll note this in the outputThis gives you the product code ("CL") and the exchange code ("NYMEX") that will be the ticker to use in FinancialData.You can then write the Financial Data query as normal: FinancialData["NYMEX:CL","Close",{2010,1,1}] That query will return the TimeSeries of the closing prices since 2010I will say that this can be quite unstable for less "popular" commodities such as ags...but, after two or three tries, the data populates.In short, if the commodity / fx / rate / equity future is on ICE, CME, NYMEX, CBOT then you can probably pull the timeseries via FinancialData.Hope that helps!