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Re:Google Plans To Split Shares 2-for-1 by soupboy on Thursday April 12, 2012 @05:49PM (#3834341)
Not sure if tickers can have numbers

Edit: Doesn't seem to be an official rule, but the de facto standard does appear to be 2-3-4-5 character tickers.[1]

[1] http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2007/2007-63.htm

Re:Google Plans To Split Shares 2-for-1 by joeyo on Friday April 13, 2012 @12:46AM (#3835434)
Incidentally, the only one-character ticker symbols that seem to be unused are J, Q, and W.