# Tips on mismatched ticker names?

**URL:** <https://forum.numer.ai/t/tips-on-mismatched-ticker-names/3555>\
**Category:** Signals\
**Created:** [June 7, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/tips-on-mismatched-ticker-names/3555 "2021-06-07T03:15:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![mugamma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@mugamma](https://forum.numer.ai/u/mugamma)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/tips-on-mismatched-ticker-names/3555/2 "2021-06-08T02:34:15Z")

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Turns out my issue was in the header. I had `ticker` instead of `numerai_ticker` like the example code. Changing to `numerai_ticker` gave me 100% live tickers matched.

The documentation on this should be clarified. It currently says the following which does not mention a `numerai_ticker` option nor explain whatever the semantic difference is.

> A `cusip`, `sedol`, or `ticker` column - values must be valid tickers associated with the ticker type in the header.

> **[Overview | Numerai Docs](https://docs.numer.ai/numerai-signals/signals-overview#submissions)**
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