Where can I find a database for historical european stock quotes
(open, high, low, close, volume)?

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Request for Question Clarification by leader-ga on 23 May 2003 16:27 PDT

How historical the quotes be? (1 year, 5 year more). Do you seek all
the european markets or just the major stock exchanges? I know a
website which lists nine major stock exchanges with five years of
quotes? Does this sound acceptable?

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Clarification of Question by wpaul-ga on 25 May 2003 23:37 PDT

Ok..... I shall clarify.

Basically I need to perform technical analysis studies on 600 european
stocks via Metastock or Omega Tradestation. I do need to access a
service (will pay the usual fees, etc) that gives me daily updates as
well (but that's the easy part).

5 years' worth of history would be perfect.

Thank you...

Paul

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Clarification of Question by wpaul-ga on 29 May 2003 09:07 PDT

Uh... any ideas, Leader-Ga?

Willing to increase the price (to a certain extent) but I would need a
swift answer, if possible.

Thx,

Paul

Hi, 
 one easy way would be through a Web Query and a Excel Macro and go to
the website
http://table.finance.yahoo.com/d?a=2&b=3&c=1998&d=5&e=4&f=2003&g=d&s=t
Here the diff input Variables are 
http://table.finance.yahoo.com/d?a=2&b=3&c=START YEAR &d=5&e=4&f= END
YEAR &g=d&s= TICKER

(The variables are written in a bold Format) 

So what you need to do is enter all the Tickers for the company u want
in an excel spreadsheet then create this webquery which takes the
ticker as a parameter and put it in a loop which runs for all the 600
names

Do let me know if you need any clarification about this method 
Regards 
Saurabh Devendra Singh aka SD

Well...thanks for the input! I really didn't know this hidden side of
Yahoo.

But will it work for *european stocks* as well? I believe the page you
pointed out works only for US stocks....

Paul

Hi Paul, 
 for eurpopean stocks what yahoo does is that it adds a extension
based on the exchange after the ticker so
For a company traded in the London Stock Exchange you add a .l for
London Stock Exchange MARCONI with Symbol MONI.L
so your address line becomes :-
http://uk.table.finance.yahoo.com/d?b=5&a=2&c=2003&e=6&d=5&f=2003&g=d&s=moni.l

Now the Next Question is where will you get the extension from ? that
can be done by a symbol lookup for any one company in each exchange

Regards 
SD