would be of much use for backtesting except maybe for seasonal strategies.
Also it might be interesting to study Hurst exponent and see if it's
changed much over the years.
None the less it is of interest from a historical standpoint. I like
reading trading memoirs and it's useful to be able to go back and pull out
chart and look at a specific week.
I'll take your advice and see what google comes up with.
Thanks,
James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lionel Issen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:08 PM
Subject: RE: [quotes-plus] RE:Extended data for the S&P500 and Dow
> This data is not at Equis. You may have to contact DJ. Bigcharts.com has
the
> DJI chart going back to 1970.
>
> Try a search on the internet. Since markets, economies, and technologies
> have changed so much the data may be of limited value for trading. Perhaps
> you should look at long term economic cycles or talk to an economics
> historian.
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> By the way the only stock that was in the original DJI that is still in it
> is GE.
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> Lionel
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of steinington
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:56 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [quotes-plus] RE:Extended data for the S&P500 and Dow
>
>
>
> Harry, where was DJ industrial data going back to 1897 from Metastock? Is
> it something that you download from Equis? I've checked the data cd and
> goes back only to 2000.
> Thanks,
> James
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry M. Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 9:42 PM
> Subject: [quotes-plus] RE:Extended data for the S&P500 and Dow
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>
> > On 14 Apr 2006 06:58:59 -0000, "steinington"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >>Not sure if anyone agrees with me, but it might be nice to get
extended
> data
> > >>for the S&P500 and Dow. It would be wonderful to go back to the 50s
but
> if
> > >>it's easy to do even going back to the turn of the century. I'm not
> even
> > >>sure the S&P500 existed back then.
> > >>
> >
> > If you search around the web, you can get this; at least in Metastock
> > format. Metastock supplies data on the DJ Industrials back to about
> > 1897, I think. Yahoo had S&P 500 data back to 1950, and the Nasdaq
> > back to 1984. You can download that data, then update it with QP data.
> > But if you want to update it in Metastock format, you must do that
> > thru QP's update function; not through SPP. SPP only updates what QP
> > has on their servers (back to about 1990 I think), so all data earlier
> > than that will be erased!
> >
> > Harry
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> >
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> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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