I have a very basic data question: I would need to be able to get the approximate list of common stocks as is available in Telechart I can not get this data at eoddata , for example NASDAQ makes this information available via FTP and they update it every night. Look in the directory SymbolDirectory.

You'll notice two files: Given this list, which you can pull each night, you can then query Yahoo to obtain the necessary data to calculate your statistics. More information about these files and their fields can be found here. Bloomberg Open Symbology has this list. Look in the Common Stock precanned file. This will have a bit more data than you probably need as it has a separate entry and unique id for each place an equity is traded. However it is probably the highest quality list available for free anywhere.

You can download all stocks on the three exchanges listed in your question from the NASDAQ website: The stockSymbols function in the R package TTR pulls the data from nasdaq.

It also attempts to convert the symbols to a format acceptable to Yahoo Finance. That said, I'm not certain how to filter this list for only common stocks. Perhaps the remaining categories in Sectors and Industries can help you further refine the list.

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Louis Marascio 3, 1 20 I'll have to add a function to TTR to access these files. Does Yahoo allow you to run a script to do thousands of HTML fetches against their servers?

I know some web sites will ban your IP if you try that. It is also possible to download data for up to symbols from Yahoo! Steve 1, 10 This is great because it has all securities globally - I'd found it difficult to get non-US symbols before this. Can't figure out how to use it. Then click "Excel" in top right corner. Also, for equities if you select a country not exchange and then deselect All Exchanges it'll give you only the primary exchange.

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Slightly ugly bash one-liner for a sorted JSON array: Filtered out test stocks. Ryan Lester 2 5.

I posted on [R-Sig-Finance] on the matter. I answered on R-SIG-Finance. Basically, the file changed and I haven't pushed the update to CRAN yet. The R-Forge version of TTR works.

Sorry for the confusion. No problem, thanks for the fast reply and for writing this function. In it, you'll get: The week's top questions and answers Important community announcements Questions that need answers.

Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange works best with JavaScript enabled. Filtered out test stocks share improve this answer. I have a problem using this function, in fact I only get gibberish.

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