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Re: How do I get a good symbol list on globalserver or Radarscreen?


  • To: Jack Griffin <jack_2231@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: How do I get a good symbol list on globalserver or Radarscreen?
  • From: Mike Eggleston <mikee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 05:24:39 -0800
  • In-reply-to: <DGENLKIJCGFOLFDINFHMOECGCIAA.junkmayl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Jack Griffin wrote:

> Third problem is to manage lists of symbols on the
> global server.  The only way I know of to do this is
> by importing an xpo file from someone who has entered
> each symbol by hand.  Nobody responded offering help
> with this so I am just having a huge list of symbols
> in the global server (which slows it down and is not
> ideal), but works.  If someone were to upload, say,
> xpo files of all optionable stocks, sp500 stocks, etc.
> containing only 1 days worth of daily data (no
> intraday data, etc.) to traders2traders.com that would
> solve this last problem for us.  
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> P.S.  Lists of stocks can be found on the cboe web
> page, although not in an easy format.

How is an 'xpo' file created? If it is an ascii file I
can pull lists from any web page and reformat it to
ascii, and I have programs to retrieve the stock data
for any given stock.

Would this help?

Mike