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Re: stocks and narrow indexes



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I'm not sure I understand your question, but knowing/familiarity with all
products on US exchanges (including the new SSFs) should give you a good
idea of all available index possibilities.

'Seems to me, there's actually too much stuff (of the same) to trade and not
enough "real volume".



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cwest" <cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "omegalist" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 7:04 PM
Subject: stocks and narrow indexes


> With the plethora of synthetic things one can trade these days, I thought
> I'd search for a tool/utility that returns the symbol of an index for a
> given symbol of a stock. For example, to which indexes does MSFT belong.
> Indexes can also be ETFs. I was somewhat surprised not to readily find any
> site on the Internet that did this.
>
> I know there are 200+ sectors over which stocks are spread, but if there
> isn't a tradable index for a particular sector, there's not much point to
> such categorization in terms of pairs trading, for example. To date I've
> used broad indexes to construct hedges, but would like to find a way to
> narrow the offsetting choices.
>
> Has anyone come across such a tool in conceptual terms?
>
> Tia
> Colin West
>
>