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RE: NDX symbol funnies



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Gary
I don't know what your data feed is, But for signal I think what you want is
$NDX. DBC prefaces their indexs by the "$".

Jerry W.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Fritz [mailto:fritz@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 3:43 PM
> To: drwar@xxxxxxxxxxxx; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: NDX symbol funnies
>
>
> > There is a Nasdaq 100 index symbol(Ndx) on the CBOE exchange.
>
> That's what I thought when I ran up against this the last time, but
> that's not what's in my symbol universe.  Maybe I deleted the
> NDX/CBOE *index* symbol to avoid the problems I was having before.
>
> (Why in God's name do they have duplicate symbols for the same thing
> in two different exchanges!?  Which NDX is the ""right"" NDX?)
>
> In any case, I don't want the CBOE index OR index option symbols.
> And ordinarily I don't get them.  But when I try to chart NDX data
> from ASCII, the CBOE index option symbol is the only NDX symbol it
> can find.  And unless I'm mistaken, this is a recent change.  Whether
> or not it's recent, it's not right.
>
> Gary
>