Market-data includes all questions relative to data acquisition for the different financial products. It can also include questions about how market data are computed.
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Where to download list of all common stocks traded on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX?
I have a very basic data question: how to get a list of all common stocks traded on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX? I would need to be able to get the approximate list of common stocks as is available in ...
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Has spectrum analysis ever been used successfully to analyse historical price data?
Spectrum analysis is often used to analyse waveforms. A common configuration, for example, is to create a graph where X is time, Y is frequency, and the brightness of each position represents ...
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Earnings and valuation data sources online
Are there any free/cheap sources for historical data on company earnings and valuations? I can get historical price data from Google and Yahoo, and it looks like I can get about five years of ...
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Do you have historical tick data you want to donate?
Do you have historical market/pricing ticket data that you would like to donate to the Open Source Trader project (OST)??
Please: upload your files! Once we gather some data, we'll do our best to ...
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Is “eoddata” a good data source?
Not sure if this is a relevant question for site, but I am looking to move to www.eoddata.com as my data source.
If anyone has used it, can you tell me how the data quality is ?
I am currently ...
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What is the best data structure/implementation for representing a time series?
I was wondering what is best practice for representing elements in a time series, especially with large amounts of data. The focus/context is in a back testing engine and comparing multiple series.
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Which algorithm should I look into to kick off my research in algorithmic trading? [closed]
I have recently undertaken a research into automated algorithmic trading algorithms.
The aim of the research is to focus on studying algorithmic trading and trying to improve a basic implementation ...
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Do markets typically fall fast, and rise slowly
I'm wondering if there is some measurement or name to this notion, i.e.:
Markets typically fall fast, but rise slowly.
It seems like this is the case -- get some bad news out of Europe on the debt ...
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Mass Market Data Source
My current project requires large amounts of historical and real-time market data (1m or 5m bars for various products, mostly US futures for as far back as available). This data will be analyzed by ...
