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I used Data from JustData. As well as supplying historical price data going back to around 1984'ish, they also include delisted stocks which are useful to have if you intend to backtest strategies.
Data is available for "free" from places such as Yahoo but from my experience the data can contain errors, missing elements, etc.
When it comes to data, the old saying is very true ... " You get what you pay for..."
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True enough. With Yahoo you pay nothing and what you get is not perfect, but it is serviceable unless you need perfection. In which case, you'll need to pay.
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I get daily updates from here: FREE End of Day Stock Market Data and Historical Stock Prices Probably not perfect but you won't beat the price.
rap2win
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That's handy, but on a free subscription they appear to offer no data at all for the LSE and only 30 days of historical data for a limited few others.
I'm looking for a data supplier that can provide LSE data split into different folders so that it is easy to identify the FTSE 350 for example and also easy to see the list of shares in each sector. Reuters justs puts everything into one folder which really makes things difficult. I don't mind paying.
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I used to do this using Yahoo (free) and MLDownloader software (not free). I found the main downside with Yahoo was that they were slow to update their lists of stock symbols to include the new and drop the delisted.
There were a couple of decent paid data services mentioned in this thread already.
Thanks for the reply. I've emailed some of the companies mentioned on the thread so I will see if they come back to me. I can't believe I am the only person that wants to scan the FTSE 100 or FTSE 350 shares without scaning every other companies on the LSE. So how do other people manage? I could make custom lists but doing updating that to include sectors etc would take a lot of time every month.
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In Metastock (and other similar progs presumably) all you have to do is make a folder(s) of your chosen stocks / sectors etc and update it daily with any EOD data file. You can get the initial historic download(s) from Yahoo. It's very easy using one of the paid-for utility progs eg ML Downloader - there are loads out there all with free trials. If you are a mean git like me you could use this free utility: GimmeFreeData v1.6 - just do a Google search to find.
I've used the above solution for your problem (as i understand it) for years. (you can get sector listd from yahoo or FTSE website).
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Thanks 0007 appreciate your feedback. I don't mind making my own lists if there is an easy place to find the symbols. I have looked on the FTSE site but there appears to be company names only rather than symbols. If I could for example update the FTSE 250 by cutting and pasting a symbol list from yahoo / FTSE website or other source I would be fine. Do know of any?
This is frustrating for me as I am pretty computer literate but this has stumped me. Perhaps I just don't know what is available.
This is frustrating for me as I am pretty computer literate but this has stumped me. Perhaps I just don't know what is available.
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Hi Shanghai,
If you can locate a reliable source where the FTSE100, 250, 350 etc constituents are identified, I'd be most grateful if you can post it here. I'm having a similar problem....
Thanks...
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this link on eoddata.com List of Symbols for London Stock Exchange contains the info you require. You could extract the data manually in conjunction with the lists from here: FTSE UK Index Series - Constituents. A bit balls-aching but you only have to do it once. If you are any good with software you could use a text parsing program to do it automatically. I don't know of any readymade list.
Thanks. I don't really have a problem for symbols for the whole LSE as they are on Metastock in any case. Just extracting the FTSE 350 symbols and then putting them in different folders for all the sectors etc wouldn't make for much of a fun weekend though. If it was just a one-off task I wouldn't mind so much. The problem comes when the FTSE 100 / 350 gets regularly revised and / or any symbols get changed.
The annoying thing is that all this is automaticaly provided for the US market within Reuters data.
At the moment I'm tempted to buy Sharescope to work alongside Metastock. The TA on Metastock is better but to search for trades it seems that Sharescope presents the UK information better.
The annoying thing is that all this is automaticaly provided for the US market within Reuters data.
At the moment I'm tempted to buy Sharescope to work alongside Metastock. The TA on Metastock is better but to search for trades it seems that Sharescope presents the UK information better.
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What you say is right & a fair summary. I've been living with the "problem" for years but I don't really find it that onerous - quarterly changes in FTSE are relatively small.
