The channel says "XAUUSD" and your broker calls it XAUUSD.m, GOLD or XAUUSDx. The copier resolves this by itself almost always, but not always.
When a terminal is linked, your broker's whole catalogue is read, suffixes included. From then on, when a channel names an instrument, its equivalent is looked up in your list.
It also picks up your broker's way of naming things, so what it learns on one instrument serves for the others.
The system does not accept just any resemblance. There are instruments with almost identical names and nothing in common: exchange-traded funds whose name recalls an index, crypto with a name close to a currency. Rather than open a trade in the wrong instrument, it prefers to discard the signal and tell you.
That decision has saved more money than it looks.
In the app, on the Reglas tab (Rules — the app is in Spanish for now), you get the list of instruments with the symbol assigned to each on that terminal, and a button to change it. It is saved for that terminal and never asked again.
If you do not know which one it is, look at your MetaTrader's Market Watch: the name shown there is the one that counts.
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