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Equity Index data

Postby ctu1121 » 10 Jun 2013

Hi,
May I know where could I get the Equity Index data? For example, I would like to get
Dow Jones Industrial Average, I could get it from IB but I can not get it from free quote. For SP500 index, I could not get SP500 index from IB, and I could not get it from Free Quote.
I try to use SPY ETF to simulate SP500.

May I know if there is a third party who provide global equity index? For example, DJ30,SP500,SP100,NK225,HK,FTSE,DAX,CAC40 and so on.

Thanks for your valuable information.

Charles

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Re: Equity Index data

Postby Henry MultiСharts » 10 Jun 2013

Hello Charles,
May I know if there is a third party who provide global equity index?
With FreeQuotes you can get data only for the symbols that have the option Historical prices->Download to Spreadsheet on their webpage.
If you can not get certain instrument data from Interactive brokers-check out the Event log in File->New->QuoteManager window for messages like "No market data permission".
May I know if there is a third party who provide global equity index?
Please check the Supported security types article to learn which data providers supply Indexes data.

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Re: Equity Index data

Postby ctu1121 » 10 Jun 2013

Thanks for your information. Please see the following hyperlink, I could download both
SP500 and DOW historical data.

S&P 500 (^GSPC)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EGSPC ... cal+Prices

Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EDJI+ ... cal+Prices


However, while request from MultiCharts, I could only see ^GSPC and I can not see ^DJI.
Is there any solution to see ^DJI from free quote? Thanks.
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Re: Equity Index data

Postby Henry MultiСharts » 11 Jun 2013

There is no "Download to Spreadsheet" option on DJI page. That means you cannot get this data directly from Free Quotes in MultiCharts.
You can manually save the price values from DJI page and then import into MultiCharts: Importing ASCII data.

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Re: Equity Index data

Postby TJ » 13 Jun 2013

Thanks for your information. Please see the following hyperlink, I could download both SP500 and DOW historical data.
S&P 500 (^GSPC)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EGSPC ... cal+Prices
Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EDJI+ ... cal+Prices
However, while request from MultiCharts, I could only see ^GSPC and I can not see ^DJI.
Is there any solution to see ^DJI from free quote? Thanks.
Yahoo! is no longer licensed to provide data downloads for the Dow Jones Index.
At this time, Dow Jones Industrial Average [^DJI] data can only be viewed on web screen.

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Re: Equity Index data

Postby virginiatrader » 13 Jun 2013

ctu1121:

You don't specify what time frame you are looking for in your historical data, so I will assume end-of day.

Two good vendors:

Pinnacle Data Corporation - futures, cash markets, and COT data
http://www.pinnacledata.com/

Norgate Investor Services / Premium Data - futures, cash markets, and foreign markets
http://www.premiumdata.net/

I use both. Good trading!

virginiatrader


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