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Re: Re: Manipulating FinancialData[]

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• Subject: [mg106421] Re: [mg106365] Re: Manipulating FinancialData[]
• From: Syd Geraghty <sydgeraghty at me.com>
• Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:48:06 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks Drago,

I appreciate your pointing out  FinancialData["exchangeName", "Members"] to me and for providing a soluyion using it.


Cheers .... Syd

Syd Geraghty B.Sc, M.Sc.

sydgeraghty at mac.com

Mathematica 7.0.1.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64 - bit) (12th September 2009)
MacOS X V 10.6.1 Snow Leopard 
MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo  2GB RAM



On Jan 11, 2010, at 2:26 AM, Drago Ganic wrote:

> Hi Syd,
> to retrieve the financial instruments You should use the "Members" property 
> of the group "Exchanges" and not the "Lookup" command.
> 
> So, this does not work:
>    FinancialData["exchangeCode:*", "Lookup"]
> 
> but this
>    FinancialData["exchangeName", "Members"]
> 
> will work because FinancialData["Exchanges"] returns a list of Exchange 
> names (which work with "Members") and not Exchange codes (which work with 
> Lookup"). Unfortunatly there is no simple functionality in FinancialData to 
> extract the Exchange codes.

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  • Re: Manipulating FinancialData[]
    • From: "Drago Ganic" <dganic@vodatel.net>