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I remember reading someplace about
an MS plugin which does broad market calculations.
I am (almost) sure their
representative should be on this forum.
Maybe he will respond to you.
Googling should help you too on this.
Dusant
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 5:24
PM
Subject: RE: [EquisMetaStock Group] A-D
data format.
I started down this road a while ago. In the end I
decided I didn't have the
time or energy. What decided me was the
realization that, even if I managed
to get the index list changes back to
the dawn of time, I couldn't do
anything with it unless I had matching
data. Data vendors change and purge
their lists when there are name
changes, takeovers, bankruptcies, etc. An
S&P 500 list from 20 years
ago may not have data on 20% (? I'm guessing -
could be more) of the
component securities using today's lists. So until a
vendor starts to offer
data that hasn't been cleaned up in that way (you
still need stock splits
etc) there's not much you can do with the index
info.
Richard Dale
at Premium Data was starting to look at this at one point, but
I don't know
if he got anywhere.
An alternative for some of the indices is to try to
reproduce the index
criteria with a filter (e.g. market cap or trading
volume) but its a poor
second best.
If you find a solution, let us
all
know.
Andrew
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