Re: Nasdaq 100 components?

[Sven Napolean Montessori <snm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 18:47:52 -0700
   From: DH <catapult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

   > The cap weightings don't look like the ones off of nasdaqtrader.

   Nasdaqtrader's list appears out of date so their weightings probably are
   too. SPOT was removed from the index almost a year ago. 

Unless there have been major changes, the weightings should still be
in the 'neighboorhood'.


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

   I'd always go by the official NASDAQ site rather than some third
   party.

But the third parties actually trade the interesting bits.


   PS - remember to work in percentages rather than points when building
   your own index from the cap weightings -- MSFT moves 1%, the index moves
   .07%.

Actually the data from nasdaqtrader allowed me to calculate the
scalers for multiplying the current last price of a stock (and then
summing over the index components) to create the predicted index
value.  So MSFT moves 1 pt, the index moves about 4.

Thanks again.  Poking at this again now...