Hello together! I want to undertake exploratory analyses (clustering, PCA, etc...) on historic data downloaded with yahooSeries (fImport-package). In order to download the data, I need a collection of ticker symbols. Is there some list or table out there, so that I don't need to look up the ticker symbols manually? Can anybody give me a hint? Kind regards, Gero
fImport : where to get a list of ticker symbols?
4 messages · Gero Schwenk, Brian G. Peterson, julien cuisinier +1 more
Gero Schwenk wrote:
Hello together! I want to undertake exploratory analyses (clustering, PCA, etc...) on historic data downloaded with yahooSeries (fImport-package). In order to download the data, I need a collection of ticker symbols. Is there some list or table out there, so that I don't need to look up the ticker symbols manually? Can anybody give me a hint?
I don't know if fImport contains such a list. In R: require(quantmod) ?getSymbol NASQAQ also used to publis spreadsheets or CSV files of all US-listed securities traded on major exchanges. Bloomberg publishes their lists of symbols and identifiers as well. Cheers, - Brian
Brian G. Peterson http://braverock.com/brian/ Ph: 773-459-4973 IM: bgpbraverock
Hi Gero, If you go on yahoo finance and choose an index, there is a link "components" that you can download in a spreadsheet. I guess that should cover your needs e.g. for the SP500: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cp?s=^GSPC hope that helps Rgds, Julien
On 15 Nov 2009, at 13:44, Gero Schwenk wrote:
Hello together! I want to undertake exploratory analyses (clustering, PCA, etc...) on historic data downloaded with yahooSeries (fImport-package). In order to download the data, I need a collection of ticker symbols. Is there some list or table out there, so that I don't need to look up the ticker symbols manually? Can anybody give me a hint? Kind regards, Gero
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Gero, The stockSymbols() function in the TTR package downloads all the ticker symbols (from the NASDAQ CSV files Brian mentioned) into a data.frame. Best, Josh -- http://www.fosstrading.com
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> wrote:
Gero Schwenk wrote:
Hello together! I want to undertake exploratory analyses (clustering, PCA, etc...) on historic data downloaded with yahooSeries (fImport-package). In order to download the data, I need a collection of ticker symbols. Is there some list or table out there, so that I don't need to look up the ticker symbols manually? Can anybody give me a hint?
I don't know if fImport contains such a list. In R: require(quantmod) ?getSymbol NASQAQ also used to publis spreadsheets or CSV files of all US-listed securities traded on major exchanges. Bloomberg publishes their lists of symbols and identifiers as well. Cheers, ?- Brian -- Brian G. Peterson http://braverock.com/brian/ Ph: 773-459-4973 IM: bgpbraverock
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