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Re: [EquisMetaStock Group] A-D data format.



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Thanks Andrew,

Here is an example of what I am looking for.

http://www.nasdaq.com/indexshares/historical_data.stm

This goes back to 1995.

But what about all the component changes between 1983 and 1994?

Are they published somewhere?




--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Andrew Tomlinson" 
<andrew_tomlinson@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> S&P will sell you old S&P 500 lists back to 1989 or hard copy back 
to 83 -
> for $125 per constituent list! Let's see, four a year, 20 years - 
what's
> $10,000 between friends? But I guess you could get a starting place 
by
> buying the first one they have...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: napier_bone [mailto:geosen@x...] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 3:25 PM
> To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group] A-D data format.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Larry,
> 
> You have an ambitious project in the works and are probably the 
only 
> one here who can answer my question.
> 
> Do you know where component changes in various indices are 
published 
> such as WSJ and Barron's?
> 
> The information on the internet is sketchy and rarely goes all the 
> way back to the inception of the index.
> 
> I have all the component changes for the Nasdaq 100 back to 1995. 
> prior to that I have found nothing. Some S&P indices back to 2001. 
Indices
> maintained by PHLX are well documented, but AMEX has 
> information on its indices only back to the fall of 1999.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Now I have an idea on A-D data format.
> 
> Instead of maintaining 2 separate files for A and D data, I have 
> combined both into one file. The order of the data is the familiar 
> Open, High, Low, Close order with O=D, H=Max(A,D), L=MIN(A,D) and 
C=A.
> 
> This can be displayed in Metastock as if it were security data.
> 
> Then C-O = A-D and C/O = A/D.
> 
> George
> 
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